Anthropology › Section F · Language and communication › Topic F.5
Language and power
How you speak can open doors or close them. Accents, dialects and ways of talking are tied to class, race, gender and colonial history, and many of the world's languages survive only because their communities have fought to keep them.
In this topic
- Judged by a voice
- Sociolinguistics and social patterns
- Dialects and standard languages
- Language ideology and African American English
- Gender and talk
- Gender performed in language
- Endangered languages
- Revitalisation
- Worked example: a red pen
- Worked example: planning a revival
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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