ANTH 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Raymond Williams, Language Ideology, English Americans
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Office hours for professor: anso2222, wednesday, friday (12:30-1:30) Definitions of language ideology: shared bodies of commonsense notions about language, sets of beliefs about language as rationalizations of language use, ideas a group holds about the role of language in social experience. Examples of language ideologies: standard language ideology: a bias towards an abstract, idealized homogeneous language, which is imposed and maintained by dominant institutions and which has as its model the written language. Teaching black kids not to speak in black english. English only movement in the us: advocates that english be the official and only language used in the us, reaffirming the preeminence of english means reaffirming a unifying force in american. Life: send a message to immigrants, encouraging them to join in rather than remain apart, and to government, cautioning against policies which could retard english acquisitions. Language ideology: a definition of language is always, implicitly or explicitly a definition of human beings in the world (raymond williams)
