UNIT2 PRACTICE

Language develops over time through social contact and conflict

Langauge is a tool that enables people to improve their social status

Language is determined largely by the social context in which it is used.

Language exists as a means of communication between people or groups.

eventually created a dialect specific to that region.

initially all spoke the same dialect.

did not interact with speakers of other languages.

did not initially speak English.

American English has varities

determined by social factors

the geographical dialect

damage Germany’s economy.

symbolically reject something German.

create permanent social conflict.

illustrate how linguists’ understanding of language has improved.

show how language has increased in complexity over time.

point out that humans have the ability to learn language.

explain how language is influenced by social circumstances.

Many linguists believe that humans are genetically programmed to learn language…

We may speak differently when we’re with friends, relatives, or strangers; when we’re at home, in school or on the job.

.However, linguistic prejudice can run deep and cause lasting damage.

emphasize the broad, universal nature of the issues

focus on the more abstract, economic concerns.

present the people in the excerpt as heroic. 

The value of a farm may lie in the quality of the crops it produces.

People with no forms of employment will eventually protest their position.

People will take out many loans when placed in an economically dire situation.

Farming practices can be used to increase the wealth of large businesses.

They had no argument, no system, nothing but their numbers and their needs.

And when the peaches and the pears were ripe he cut the price of fruit below the cost of raising it.

And as cannery owner he paid himself a low price for the fruit and kept the price of canned goods up and took his profit.

And the anger began to ferment.

fatigued. 

overworked.

drained.

weakened.

ignored the issue of former workers migrating to other areas.

failed to consider that their former workers might retaliate against them.

.became too singularly focused on increasing their wealth.

People who lived in that area would have spoken in a similar manner.

The dialect would have come to the area from a different part of the country.

People would speak in a similar way with either friends or strangers.

It includes polite discourse intended to show respect to other local people.

It includes technical jargon to explain the local people's stance on outsiders.

It includes a mix of off-color and colorful language to suggest the local people's confusion over their circumstance.

.It includes informal communication intended to create solidarity within the local people's community.

The owner thanks in large part to the sacrifices of workers, like the song’s subject, lives in a nice home and is financially secure.

The owner, thanks in large part to the sacrifices of workers like the song’s subject lives in a nice home and is financially secure.

The owner thanks in large part to the sacrifices of workers like the song’s subject, lives in a nice home and is financially secure.

The owner, thanks in large part to the sacrifices of workers like the song’s subject, lives in a nice home and is financially secure.

Listeners can relate to the struggle of the factory worker.

Despite this suffering, the man in the song has no choice.

Tired of being unappreciated, the man makes a change in his life.

The worker's factory job satisfies his basic needs.

The factory job inspires him to work hard.

The factory, as the song implies, gives him life.

provides a Marxist Literary Criticism; a theory that suggests

provides a Marxist Literary Criticism—a theory that suggests

provides a Marxist Literary Criticism … a theory that suggests

In doing so, he highlights the struggles of the working class and the discrepancies existing within American society.

In doing so, he highlights the struggles of the working class and challenges Marxist theory.

In doing so, he highlights the struggles of the working class and establishes himself as the hero of the everyday worker.