LCC FInal Flashcards
example of changing reality
“I now pronounce you husband and wife”
performativity/ performative speech
talk that takes action or “does something” just through its utterance
two types of utterances
constative and performative
constative utterance:
can be proven to be true or false
performative utterance:
statements that do things
in order for a speech to do performativity they need…
authority
locutionary act/force:
what was intended-perfomative speech
perlocutionary act/force:
what resulted from the utterance/the effects of the utterance
ideology:
the means of organizing the ways one sees the world, so that one perspective is made to seem “natural”
language ideology:
sets of beliefs that tie linguistic practices to social experiences and relationships
can language ideologies be discriminatory?
yes
example of ideology in action
respect in service encounters— “can I help you with anything”
example of social consequences with gender
the color blanket a baby got is chosen because of gender
4 characteristics of gender
1-learned
2-collaborative
3-performative
4-asymmetrical- produces unequal relations
linguistic marketplace:
where language exchanges happen
ethnography of communication:
knowledge of codes, channels, and expression to use in appropriate contexts
social aesthetics of language:
the interweaving of culturally shaped and emotionally felt dimensions of language use and the extra linguistic factors that rank people and their groups into hierarchies
order of dialects language and accents
language -> dialects -> accents
Hijra culture
-third gender
-men behave similar to woman
-act hyper feminine/sexual because women in that area can’t act that way
