Sociolinguistics Chapter 7 Presentation Flashcards

Flashcards about Language and Ethnicity

Ethnicity

A group sharing sociocultural characteristics – a sense of place, ancestry, a common history, religion, cultural practices, ways of communicating, and often a language.

Race

A socially constructed concept emphasized by the interaction of stereotypes with phenotype characteristics.

Racialization

The act of ascribing and prescribing a racial category or classification to an individual or group of people.

Institutional Racism

Racism encoded in the rules, laws, and norms of law, organizations, and companies and so is systemic.

Personally Mediated Racism

Specific prejudicial attitudes involving differential assumptions about abilities, motives, and intentions of others according to race.

Microaggression

A comment or action that subtly and often unconsciously or unintentionally expresses a prejudiced attitude toward a member of a marginalized group.

Internal Racism

Acceptance by members of stigmatized races of negative messages about their own abilities and intrinsic value, characterized by their not believing in the worth of their culture.

Racist Discourse

A form of discriminatory social practice that manifests itself in text, talk, and communication.

Expat

A term often reserved for white people who are migrants living outside their home nation.

Maritime Asylum Seekers (MAS)

People who come to Australia by boat seeking asylum; often represented metaphorically as dangerous, ungrateful & economically draining.

Asylum Seeker

Someone who is applying to a new country to be recognized as a refugee, claiming a well-founded fear of persecution.

Anonymity (Online)

The ease with which an author online might not be directly accountable for views put forward.

Invisibility (Online)

The author online does not see and is not seen by their readers.

Ethnolinguistic Repertoire

The set of linguistic resources that individuals recruit in their construction of identities.

Overt Prestige

High status awarded to varieties that are valued according to hegemonic norms.

Linguistic Insecurity

Awareness of the stigma of one's own variety of language.

Quotatives

Words used to indicate that a person is quoting (or seeming to quote) someone else or their own thoughts.

AAL (African American Language)

The variety used by many African Americans, capturing the diversity of repertoire.

Linguistic Push-Pull

The dilemma for many African Americans: language as a symbol of ethnic identity may also serve as the focus for discrimination.

Situated Ethnicity

The idea that identity claims may shift depending on the communicative contexts people are in.

Authenticity

The suggestion that there is one true identity that people can lay claim to.

Gratuitous Concurrence

Speakers of Aboriginal English (AE) may answer ‘yes’ to closed questions, regardless of either their understanding of the question or their belief about the truth or falsity of the proposition being questioned.

Sociolinguistic Labor

The physical, emotional, and psychological effort put into deploying sociolinguistic resources to satisfy others.

The unmarked ethnicity

Generally perceived as the norm.

Critical language awareness

Identifying different types of racism.

Reclaiming Terms

Terms that were originally used to demean a group are sometimes reclaimed for use by the in-group as positive markers of identity.

Language variation

Typically defined in terms of deviation from the hegemonic norm, or standard language.

Silence

Important and positively valued by speakers of AE.

Intersectionality

Complexity of identity.

Constructivist theories

theories emphasize that social and historical forces are what create a popular perception of differences between members of groups that tend to share one or more specific phenotypic features

linguistic economies

Economies of their places of origin.

cultural capital

Knowledge, evidence, value, social capital.

Critical discourse analysis

Analyse the debate in the Senate and the extensive media coverage that followed.

Code-switching

Switch between languages.

Denial of racism

can lead to further racist behavior.

Depersonalisation

Representations of migrants and asylum seekers.