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Assignment - The Equality of Languages Essay
Description - Answer (only two) of the following questions. Each answer should be about 1.5 double-spaced pages, written in essay format with complete, and grammatical, sentences in Times New Roman, 12pt font with 1 inch margins.
1. Using linguistic examples from class, what does it mean that "all spoken languages are equal in linguistic terms?"
2. Using specific theories and examples, discuss how linguistic anthropologists study and theorize the relationship between language, thought, and culture.
3. Using a detailed example of your own choosing, explain the difference between linguistic grammaticality and socially-constructed grammaticality.
4. Language change and language extinction have been a constant throughout human history. What are some of the forces that cause language loss? In your informed opinion (based on class materials) is contemporary language loss different from historical language extinction?