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Language and Power: Exploring Different Aspects

This agenda covers various aspects of language and power, including gender, power issues in English, semiotics, small group interactions, cultural relativism, and digital ethnography. It also includes discussions on language as a representation of power and Hymes' communicative competence assumptions.

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Language and Power: Exploring Different Aspects

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  1. 2 L&C/LS&C Agenda, September 7, 2008

  2. Different aspects of language & power • Tannen radio clip – power and gender 10 • Video – power issues in recent history of Am vs Brit English 15 • Ch 2 read-around (lang/thought/represent’n) 20 • Small group interaction/cultural relativism 15

  3. Agenda, part 2 • Semiotics snippets 25 • Paulston small group responses 20 • Vlogging – and Wersch, digital ethnography 25 • Adding to Hymes on Communicative competence

  4. Tannen on one set of assumptions about power http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1473161 Passivity? Powerlessness? Upspeak? Who gets to ask questions?

  5. Different aspects of language and power • From Many tongues called English In the clip from this DVD on the history of English, jot down examples of power as class power as politics power in formality x informality power in attitudes about regions power in attitudes about ethnicities

  6. Language representing power and… • Read-around from Chapter 2, LSP text • Instant background: • Signs and language http://www.rdillman.com/HFCL/TUTOR/Semiotics/sem1.html • The Internet classic: Semiotics for beginners http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html

  7. Categories and relativism • Star wars bars: small-group interaction • Each group will become a planet and devise • Power roles: gender, age, whatever • Greeting routine • Taboo routine and then . . .

  8. Using Youtube to exemplify semiotics(later we’ll look at Youtube for other reasons) • Overview – and check the comments (Semiotics) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEgxTKUP_WI&feature=related • Good start on advertising semioticshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEgxTKUP_WI&feature=related • Semiotics of the college student (inspired by Martha Roser’s semiotics of the kitchen)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JanqDJQe7O8

  9. Small group work with Paulston • If you are becoming bilingual, are you also becoming bicultural? How bicultural will you be? And whose definition of culture are you using? • How does someone come to notice biculturalism? Is it like a virus? • How does someone become bicultural? Can it be taught?

  10. Vlogging-start with Pew http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/232/report_display.asp • Digital ethnography/Michael Weschhttp://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/ • The machine is us/ing Ushttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g • Women in Sport digital ethnography Pt Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaZqU_LRGxo • The Internet has a facehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDAjO9jnccc

  11. Hymes and communicative competence: issues to think about S and classroom Stereotypes P and media as Partner E and Evaluating movie trailers A and examining how interAction happens K (we’ll add to this list over the semester) I N G

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