Language Cultures and Communication Take-home assignment

 

please read the attachment carefully be able to do this assignment. i need this assignment done by Thursday please.GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:  Below are prompts for five written responses on various issues that have been covered in lectures and readings over the first six weeks of the unit.  Respond to the prompts directly and concisely (i.e. maintain focus on points that are relevant to the prompt, or explain why points are relevant for the discussion).  • Your response for each question should be 250-300 words in length.  • Please include the question on the page with your response. (Feel free to simply insert your responses into this document.)• Please use standard margins (2.54 cm. on each side) and double-space your answers for ease of reading.  • Please create a footer that includes page number, your name and your university ID number on each page.• Feedback will be provided through Comments and Track Changes, so please save and submit your assignment as a Word document.  • Your response should be in paragraph format. Do not respond with dot points. • Include a reference (or references) for any material you use from readings. If you reference something at the end of your response, you should also include the in-text citation within the paragraph(s).• Suggested readings that can be used for this assignment were posted on Moodle in Week 6. There is no need to read beyond the suggested readings. In addition, you should consult lecture and tutorial notes.Here is the readings Suggested readings for Assignment 2_LCC_2017.pdfIf you have any questions, please email me directly1. At a party you mention that you are currently taking a unit called “Language, Cultures and Communication.”  One of the people you are talking to says, “Oh, I’ve always been fascinated by languages, and yet I don’t even know the answer to a simple question: how many languages are there?”  What would you say in response? (Your answer should incorporate definitions of language and dialect and explain how to distinguish between the two.)2. Your friend was born and raised in Australia, but she decided to attend university in the UK.  After graduating she found a job in London, where she has lived for five years.  When she talks to family and friends on the phone, they comment on how much she sounds like the English.  On the other hand, after returning from a recent visit home to Australia, her British co-workers and friends all joked that she sounded “even more Australian than usual.”  Use concepts from speech accommodation (accommodation theory) to explain why your friend’s dialect features seem to change?3. Explain what is meant by the term linguistic relativity.  Offer one piece of evidence that suggests it is valid, and one piece that suggests the view is unfounded. (Be sure to explain the reasoning behind the evidence you present.)4. You are in your first month of a 12-month volunteer teaching position in the Pacific. You teach primary school children English and Social Science in a school where everything is taught in English and all the books and materials are in English. The children all speak another local language at home and none of their parents speak English well, although most of them have completed primary school education in English. Even though the children are asked to use English in the classroom, you notice that most of them use words and phrases from their own language when they speak to one another and when they talk about their culture. Explain this phenomenon in the context of code-switching. 5. In the German-speaking sections of Switzerland, throughout the day one encounters both Standard German and Swiss German.  The table below captures circumstances in which one hears each. What sociolinguistic phenomenon does this data reflect? (Your answer should name the phenomenon using the proper sociolinguistic terminology, give a definition, identify the relationship between the languages and describe their respective properties within the system.) Standard German Swiss German BothShopping X Literary novel X Television soap opera X Radio broadcast X Primary school classroom XSecondary school classroom X University lecture X Courtroom proceedings X Newspaper article X Argument with spouse X Work orders to a service provider X ===============