My primary goal is to produce new first language speakers in spaces where indigenous languages are endangered
What is language revitalization
100
According to Saussure, this unites not a thing and a name, but a concept and a sound-image
What is the linguistic sign
100
This language spurred the 1996 Oakland school board case where multilingualism advocates wanted students to be taught in the language rather than reprimanded for using it
What is Ebonics
100
The type of grammar that we learn in school, telling us what we should say or write
What is prescriptive grammar
100
McWhorter argues that this act is critical to language preservation and is a main reason why languages like Hebrew have been successfully revived
What is writing
200
The language Meek's ethnography chronicles
What is Kaska
200
This prinicple holds that the structure of a language affects the ways in which its respective speakers conceptualize their world
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
200
Scholars of Hip Hop language argue that this principle, employed in HHL, uses language, mocks language, and recreates language
What is linguistic mastery
200
Languages and dialects are called this when speakers of similar languages and dialects can understand each other
What are mutually intelligible languages
200
Many smaller and/or indigenous languages are threatened because this category of language provides an opportunity for upward mobility by linking its speakers with the global economy
What are power languages
300
This group, which is tasked with running the language workshops, is made up primarily of Elders and Academics
Who are the experts
300
These are examples: "time is money" and "argument is war"
What is a conceptual metaphor
300
Hip Hop language often creates its own words in order to free itself from this
What is linguistic colonialism
300
Using more than one identifiable linguistic code in a single stretch of discourse
What is code switching
300
Large-scale language death began with the development of this
What is agriculture
400
Colonial practices paired with the disjunctures of revitalization efforts reinforce the power of this language
What is English
400
The claim that all the major properties of language, the object of study, are dictated by inbuilt mental apparatus
What is simple nativism
400
This HHNL platinum single varies its grammar consciously to foster linguistic-cultural connection to the streets, saying "my gramma bees ebonics"
What is Nelly's "Country Grammar"
400
Agar argues that people who think that their language and culture are the best, and therefor do not embrace cultural relativity, follow this theory's premise.
What is the deficit theory
500
This group is expected to sit and listen respectfully to dialogue in their indigenous language and participate in flash card memorization techniques
Who are the Kaska children
500
This linguistic theorist worked primarily as an insurance inspector
Who is Whorf
500
This author and journalist's work seeks to unpack the concept of language and intimacy, specifically using his own experiences with Spanish and English
Who is Richard Rodriguez
500
When addressing this concept, Agar argues that Language fills the spaces between us with sound; culture forges the human connection through them"
What is Languaculture
500
Hebrew has been successfully revived, in part, because speakers have taken this approach rather than a purist approach