ANTH 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Mock Spanish, Voiceless Dental Fricative, Nachos
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Exam: december 8th, westbrook 100 6174 uni boulevard, 12pm 2 . 1. mc: short answers, short essays(one page long, 3 choose 2, same formula in review essays. Cumulative in the sense that you need basic knowledge to approach the main exam. A discourse that indexes a stereotypical often racialized identity. Often picks out, exaggerates and over generalizes certain features of a language. Sometimes perceive as humorous, sometimes perceived as racist. The use of common pseudo-spanish terms in some otherwise monolingual anglo-american circles. Reproduces negative images and stereotypes of spanish and it"s speakers. Examples: hasty banana (hasta manana, buenos nachos (buenas noches, el cheapo , hasta la vista . Jane hill: way for elites to display democratic sensibilities by incorporation colloquial and even slangy speech, elevates whiteness while at the same time racializing historically spanish speaking populations through pejorative connotations. A discourse that indexes a stereotypically asian identity.
