Anthropology 2245F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Language Ideology, Language Policy, Canadian English
26 Sep 2017
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Power-drenched ideas people have regarding the proper use of language (blum: unit 6 introduction p. 252) Language ideologies attach beliefs and values about linguistic practices to social groups and individual speakers. How he talks about language and names as particular kinds of words. How inappropriate language is defined, regimented / regulated. The hero usually speaks standard or close to the standard variety. The villain speaks a non-standard or other dialect. Non-standard speakers must code-switch to be taken seriously. Expected, valued, or appropriate ways of speaking and writing. Ways of speaking and writing that are appropriate, ridiculed, or discounted. From 1941 - 1972, the canadian government called all indigenous peoples in northern canada eskimos and identified individuals by number tags instead of by names. The indigenous language names were not intelligible to government agents. They originally tried to standardize the spelling of names. Names were incomprehensible, too hard, not suitable for administrative purposes.
