Instructions:
- Think about a social issue that is impacted by linguistic inequality, find evidence for it in the form of a news article or academic paper. (A news article is an article from a media source like a newspaper or magazine tsuch as the New York Times, FOX, The Washington Post, VICE, etc. that addresses a current event. It does not include sources like Wikipedia, eHow, dictionaries, or other information websites.)
- Write a 300 word essay that answers the following questions:
- What is human language? From an anthropological perspective, are some languages or dialects better than others?
- What are language inequality and language ideologies and where do they come from?
- What is an example of language inequality or language ideologies and what evidence is available to show it exists?
- Discuss with details and tie the findings in the article to what you learned.
- Your essay should be:
- A total of 300 words or more.
- Use factual information from the textbook and/or appropriate articles and websites.
- Original work and will be checked for plagiarism.
- Cite your sources type references according to the .
