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What is it? n The identification of a culture – What is your race? – What culture do you identify with? n. How we communicate

Convergents or Divergence? n Who conforms? n Who decides? n And what does it all mean?

Ok so there is a down side… n Social appropriateness § + and - n Norms n And the consequences…

n “so, like. . she said, that I said, that like I was like and she was like, and then I was like and ehhhh. ” n A division of groups – In groups and out groups Football n Starbucks n Techies n – URL, AC/DC, . – ADC, Gbps, POTS

FACE it n Ya ya we know chapter 3… the “saving face” n Face concern dilemma – Keeping the balance of individualism and collectivism – Status

UNEXPECTED BUT AUTHENTIC USE OF AN ETHNICALLY-MARKED DIALECT

RESEARCHER n Who: Julie Sweetland n Where: Stanford University, Calif.

“AAVE” n It stands for African American Vernacular English

STUDY n ETHNOGRAPHY: Complete Observer n Delilah-23 Year old white female

EXAMPLE SPEECH PATTERNS n. DELILAH SAYS, “ YOU KNOW HOW VIKKI GETS DRUNK, ALWAYS WANNA START SOMETHIN, OR AT LEAST ALWAYS END UP STARTIN SOMETHIN. ”

Results n MORPHOSYNTACTIC FEATURES: – Study of internal structure of words. n PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES: – Sound system of a specific language

Children Speech Accommodation to Gendered Language Styles

Researcher Who: Kirsten Robertson Tamar Murachver n Where: University of Otago n

Purpose This study is to examine children’s gendered language during middle childhood and how this is influenced by linguistic and social context.

Hypothesis n Hypothesis 1: Children would change their speech to become more similar to that employed by the experimenter. n Hypothesis 2: Children might accommodate their speech to experimenter gender; however , the influence was expected to be less than that of the experimenter.

n Hypothesis 3: Older children would accommodate more than younger children to the gender-preferential speech style of the experimenter. n Hypothesis 4: Boys with strong stereotyped beliefs would accommodate less to the speech style of the experimenter than would boys who did not hold strong sex role beliefs.

Method n Participants n Experimenter n Procedure n Coding speech style manipulation

Results n Experimenter speech styles manipulations n Children speech behavior n Stereotype results

Conclusion n Children accommodate their speech style depending on who they are talking to regardless if they were talking to someone who was or wasn't pertaining to their gender. Second, when speech style was controlled, the children’s speech did not vary as a function of their own or the experimenters gender Last, the finding show gendered beliefs shape conversational behavior.