Language Endangerment and Revitalization

Anthropology 213 Section 02

Topic Reflection Papers Due: By 5pm one day after the last class day in which the student’s chosen topic is discussed. (Example: If you choose to reflect on Topic 3, Language Socialization, your paper will be due Friday, October 14th). Note: Topics 7 & 8 count as one topic; if you choose Topic 6, Language and Identity, you will choose two days’ worth of readings (plus one additional reading) to write about. Submit papers by email to [email protected]. Format: 2-3 pages, double-spaced, 1 inch margins, 12 point font. The paper should be well- organized, free of excessive errors, and formal in tone and use a consistent citation and bibliographic style according to the APA style guide*. Support your statements and arguments with examples and quotes (clearly marked as such) from the texts. Prompt: For your chosen section of the course, write a short (2 -3 page) overview of the organizing theme for this section, using the readings assigned for that section plus one additional relevant reading (e.g. unassigned readings, including recommended readings, from MSL). Your paper should:

1) Summarize key questions, concepts and arguments from all of the readings for that topic.

2) Put these readings into relation with each other: explore relevant similarities and contrasts between authors and their ideas; if some are commenting, building on or disputing the ideas of others, this should also be discussed.

a. You should always feel free to discuss relevant ideas and readings from other sections of the course, though this is optional and should not come at the expense writing about the readings from the section you have chosen.

3) Think about what the study of the topic has contributed to our knowledge about language and culture or where it fits in to broad questions and problems of linguistic anthropology; why study language socialization, for example, or what do we learn from the study of language ideologies?

*Example of APA citation style:

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Title

of chapter. In A. A. Editor & B. B. Editor (Eds.), Title

of book (pages of chapter). Location: Publisher.