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Differences in our common language and differences in social identities within the same nation
What are differences inside the same language?
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In the first chapter Agar refers to culture as what common school supply?
What is an eraser
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How does Agar define multiculturalism as a feature in someone's life life?
What is when that life expands beyond bounderies
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Saussure compared language to this game
What is chess?
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The founder of not only modern linguistics but semiotics as well.
Who is Saussure?
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The language inside the circle
What is "Grammar and Dictionary"?
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This theory arose from the concept that when comparing a person from another culture to yourself, you look what see that person lacks.
What is the deficit theory
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According to Agar, what will follow suite to change if enough people change the way they see things?
What is institutions and countries?
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The name of the way you are supposed to talk in a formal or official setting
What is the standard?
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When a sign in one slot means that something happens in another slot, the two signs stand in this.
What is a syntagmatic relationship?
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You have to understand that differences in language go well beyond what you find in the grammar and the dictionary
How to understand language?
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What are the two ways of looking at differences between yourself and someone else?
what are 1) that differences are just the tip of the iceberg 2) notice all the things that the other person lacks when compared to you
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According to Agar, what does the "self" do as it comes into relationships with others?
What is it mutates?
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The rule of grammar that says when you put a negative particle in one place, put it in this other place as well?
What is the negative concord
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According to Saussure, this is the relationship that ties together a group of signs because they all could occur in the same slot.
What is the paradigmatic relationship?
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An encounter between different worlds of meaning
What was the confrontation in Mount Pleasant?
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what happens when culture " turns personal?"
when you encounter differences, become aware of something in yourself & work to understand why the differences appeared.
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According to an old linguists joke: What's the different between a language and a dialect?
What is the "language" speakers are the ones with an army?
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What Saussure described as what people do when they're actually using a language,and an inventory of symbols that ties them together
What is speech and language?
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When signifiers suggest the meaning of the signified, because the sound resembles the thing that it means, the sign is called this.
What is iconic?
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It isn't enough to communicate, but communication can occur without it.
What is grammar?
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When does culture have a downside? give an example
- losing the certainty of the world that tied them to their original language - Kurdish student example
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What can allow you to communicate with rocky grammar and a limited vocabulary?
What is culture?
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The names of the two faces of the sign given by Saussre
What are the signifier and the signified?
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When a signifier is caused by the signified, the sign is called this.
What is indexical?