UCLA ANTHRO 4: Midterm readings QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2025

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UCLA ANTHRO 4: Midterm readings




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Alim: Fist Bump Heard Around the World - ANS - Michelle and Barack fist




E
bump, n word, mf

- cultural and historical implications behind slang/language variety




H
- appropriation of black communication is only controversial when taken in




G
context of society that suppresses aspects of black culture




HI
Alim: Hearing What's Not Said and Missing What Is - ANS - AAE is viewed




G
as less than because it is not the dominant variety of language

- AE users have advantage




N
- AAE users style-shift to assimilate




I
- linguistic superiority is a social construct




LY
Alim: Hip Hop Nation Language - ANS - HHNL another language variety




F
used by blacks

- Has regional differences

- rooted in personal experience and the street

- new pronunciations and vocabulary

- involves audience

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Alim: Improvised rap battle in LA and Cape Town - ANS - HH culture and rap

promote linguistic creativity and expression

- cisheteropatriarchy in rhymes

- exists in US and abroad




ER
Alim: Language and Racial Politics in the US - ANS - Obama as "articulate"




H
- exceptionalizing discourse brings out white hegemony

- assimilating to AE from AAE would take away from culture




G
- further minority deviates from white, less accepted




HI
Alim: Nah We Straight - ANS - Obama style shifts




G
- AAE patterns while speaking with AAs

- Mixed black preacher style with AE to appear white, black, American, and




N
Christian




I
- AE is powerful




LY
Baugh: Linguistic Profiling - ANS - linguistic profiling determines how a




F
culture deems one language and its speakers as superior or inferior

- need to standardize language



Bucholz: Word Up - ANS - slang is informal and helps develop identity

- subculture based on hipness, race, etc

- must understand slang in practice to understand definitions and implications