Describe two examples from the text of the connection between ...

[JMatthes]

Describe two examples from the text of the connection between language and a person's or group's sense of, or expression of, identity.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Define the goals of critical media anthropology. Describe the study of advertising to the Latino population of the United States and how the conclusions drawn from it were informed by critical media anthropology.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[krakiolit]

Answer to Question 1

Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. The use of bahasa gay, a variant of the standard Indonesian language, reinforces a sense of identity among homosexual men in Indonesia.
2. Young women in Japan deliberately subvert gender conventions in the Japanese language, and have developed their own communication using text messages.
3. Fat talk among adolescent girls in the United States provides an opportunity for the affirmation of inclusion in a social group.
4. The efforts to gain recognition of African American English as a distinct form of English are a way of gaining equal recognition for African American culture.
5. Cuing among the Akwesasne Mohawk demonstrates a respect for traditions and religious matters.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. Critical media anthropology examines the ways that powerful groups may shape the content of, or access to, modern media.
2. The study of advertising directed to Latinos found that advertisers treated Latinos as a homogenous group and used a carefully standardized version of spoken Spanish in radio advertisements.
3. Advertisers relied heavily on the trope of the family.
4. Critical media informs the conclusion that this approach on the part of advertisers may lead to increasing homogeneity of a presently heterogeneous population by presenting a standardized version of Latino culture and communication in Spanish.