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Exploring Cultures in Diverse Communities: Understanding Communities of Practice Language

Delve into the study of human cultures within Communities of Practice, where shared practices and values shape identities. Explore the dynamics of culture and its impact on language, identities, and markedness.

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Exploring Cultures in Diverse Communities: Understanding Communities of Practice Language

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  1. Communities of Practice (CoPs) • A group of people who: • Participate in shared, repeated practices • Share some values • Use language in similar, specialized ways This term focuses our attention on how shared activities help to define a community

  2. Anthropology: The study of human cultures • Culture: a system of shared practices, values, knowledge, and beliefs • It’s dynamic; it’s a process • It’s not equivalent to race, ethnicity, or nationality, but it includes these things • It shapes us (helps us interpret and act in the world), but we also shape it • It’s shared and learned • It’s closely related to language “languaculture” • We ALL “have”/ participate in culture!

  3. So I'm a 16 year old white girl that lives in a very mixed part of washington like kids from all over the world live in my city litterally its cray. And all my life I have wished that I could be one of those kids talking to my mom on the phone in another language like I'm mixed I have so many cultures my ancestors were apart of which makes me mad I want just one stable eueropeon culture that I can speak to my parents to and live like them when we had culture day I felt so left out cause I don't have a culture :(

  4. Markedness • Unmarked categories, language, and identities: • Are thought of as “natural,” “normal,” or “ordinary” and are therefore less visible • Examples: walk; The Warriors; “a man” • Marked categories, language, and identities: • Are thought to somehow differ from the norm or be “other” • Examples: walked; The Lady Warriors; “a gay man”

  5. How is language used in the following slides to make some colors and categories seem marked and others seem unmarked?

  6. Example from the SuperBowl • https://www.youtube.com/user/Newcastle?v=acxXJz7gQnE

  7. Journals: 2 options • What examples can you give of things (language, activities, people) that would be marked vs. unmarked in 1 of your CoPs or in 1 of the spaces in your linguistic landscape? • What would blend into the CoP/landscape as normal and almost invisible? • What would stand out? • Write about a CoP or a space in which you have felt marked. Write about a CoP or a space in which you feel unmarked.

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