Chapter 7 | Enhancements

7.1

Listen to ​take a quiz to see if you can tell which Latino speakers are monolingual and which are bilingual.
Read "When Labels Don’t Fit: Hispanics and Their Views of Identity" at the Pew Research Center

7.2

Click the link for a report of how Hispanics in the United States view ethnic identity and ethnic labels.

7.3

A video clip on Latinos in the Southeastern United States

7.4

A video clip on Latinos in Austin, Texas

7.5

A video presentation by linguist Lars Hinrichs on bilingualism in the small town of Bayside, Texas

7.6

A discussion of so‐called “Spanglish” – Spanish‐English code‐switching.

7.7

Listen to  hear the difference between stress‐ timing and syllable‐timing.

7.8

Listen to  hear a New Orleans couple speaking Cajun English.

7.9

Listen to hear a Cajun English rendition of “The night before Christmas.”

7.9

Listen for an example of a Boudreaux and Thibodeaux joke, a parody of Cajun language and culture (WARNING: NSFW).

7.11a

 Listen to the following clips to take a perception test to see if you can tell whether each speaker is Lumbee, African American, or European American.

7.11b

7.11c

7.11d

7.11e

7.11f

7.12

A video clip of a Lumbee Indian talking about the Lumbee’s strong sense of cultural identity

7.13

A discussion of Lumbee English grammatical features.

7.14

 A discussion of Lumbee English vocabulary

7.15

A video about an Orthodox Jewish grade school in New Jersey

7.16

A parody of Jewish English. Are such parodies humorous or insulting (or both)? Why is Jewish women’s speech and not men’s speech the subject of parody here?

7.17

A interview with Nosson Zand, a rapper who combines elements of hip hop language and Jewish English in his performances.

7.18

Comedian Margaret Cho performing her Korean mother.

7.19

Comedian Margaret Cho talking about language and race.