Describe two examples from the text of the connection between language and a person's or group's sense of, or expression of, identity

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. The use of bahasa gay, a variant of the standard Indonesian language, reinforces a sense of identity among homosexual men in Indonesia.
2. Young women in Japan deliberately subvert gender conventions in the Japanese language, and have developed their own communication using text messages.
3. "Fat talk" among adolescent girls in the United States provides an opportunity for the affirmation of inclusion in a social group.
4. The efforts to gain recognition of African American English as a distinct form of English are a way of gaining equal recognition for African American culture.
5. Cuing among the Akwesasne Mohawk demonstrates a respect for traditions and religious matters.

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Some of the following are listed as subsistence strategies in Part 3 of Conformity and Conflict. Which one of the following is not?

a. hunting and gathering b. agricultural c. manufacturing d. horticultural

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The anthropological definition of art: a. is a universal one, accepted by all professionals. b. refers to processes, products, and transformation of forms in ways that are aesthetically pleasing to membersof the society

c. emphasizes permanent material forms of art as the most important. d. does not recognize symbolic communication as art. e. considers any product that is human-made as an artistic form that attempts to communicate.

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A fossil is:

A. an intact and completely preserved ancient organism only B. any remains of an organism, even modern C. the remains or traces of an ancient organism D. none of these

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