The way someone speaks (pronounces words) -- EVERYONE has one of these!
What is an accent?
100
When speakers use slang or other linguistic features associated with one ethnoracial variety or community of practice to make themselves seem "cool" or "exotic".
What is linguistic appropriation?
100
This is the reason that people tend to view "Standard English" as more correct or better than other kinds of English.
What is power (and racism, classism, etc.)?
100
Using two or more languages in the same conversation.
What is code switching?
100
When someone imposes their beliefs about how you should talk.
What is language policing?
200
The smallest part of a word with a meaning.
What is a morpheme?
200
One of the negative effects of cultural and linguistic appropriation?
What is reinforcing negative of a group or community of practice?
200
Fact or Myth: Children will become confused if they grow up speaking two languages.
What is a myth?
200
The name for the language someone's ancestors spoke (whether or not that person speaks it themselves.)
What is a heritage language?
200
What you call it when listeners identify a speaker's social characteristics by the sound of their voice alone, and treat them a certain way because of it.
What is linguistic profiling?
300
One reason that language changes over time.
What is migration, war, contact, etc.?
300
#iftheygunnedmedown and #blacklivesmatter are examples of this form of activism.
What is digital activism?
300
Fact or myth: people who code switch or speak mixed languages like Spanglish do so because they speak neither language fluently.
What is myth?
300
The multiple ways in which children, normally of immigrants, use their knowledge of two languages to speak, read, write, listen and do things for others.
What is language brokering?
300
One way that the United States used language as a tool of oppression for Native Americans?
What are boarding schools?
400
When, in a situation of contact, a speech community gradually stops using one of its languages and replaces it with another (often due to immigration).
What is language shift?
400
In the wake of the police shooting in this town, digital activism was used widely.
What is Ferguson, Missouri?
400
Before the invention of this object, different communities in England spoke different varieties of English and none was considered more "correct" than any other.
What is the printing press?
400
Being able to understand but not speak your heritage language.
What is receptive bilingualism?
400
The term for how people learn to discriminate against certain dialects by being exposed to representations of them and reactions to them.
What is Language Socialization?
500
The linguistic term for a single sound.
What is a phoneme?
500
"Be like" is a linguistic form appropriate from this ethnoracial dialect.
What is AAVE or AAE (African American Vernacular English or African American English)?
500
The reason many people believe it's better to say "ask" than "ax" and "he has no job" rather than "he doesn't have no job" and "she's singing" instead of "she singing".
What is Standard Language Ideology?
500
The whole set of linguistic tools people have that allow them to adapt their language as they talk in different situations, relationships and activities.
What is linguistic repertoire?
500
One common way that children are socialized to associate negative characteristics with speakers of African American and Chicano English.