Linguistics Autobiography Your Linguistic Autobiography This assignment will hel

Linguistics Autobiography
Your Linguistic Autobiography
This assignment will help you start thinking about the social context of language and will help us get to know each other a bit at the start of this semester. Please write an autobiography of around 1,000 to 1,500 words about the experiences you have had with language that has impacted your life. You may use the questions below as inspiration. After you post (click reply below) your linguistic autobiography to Canvas, read and reply to at least two other people’s linguistic autobiographies. You will receive 20 points for your post and 10 points for each response to a classmate (2 responses needed).
What drew you to this course?
Where are you from? Where have you lived? Who have you lived with?
Which of these social details do you think may have influenced the way you speak now? Are there other social details that you think are important/salient?
Is there a language you used to know as a small child that you don’t speak so well anymore?
Did you ever pass (even for a short time) as a native speaker of some other language? Is that one of your goals for language learning?
Have you noticed any differences between the way you speak and the way your parents speak?
What did your parents/guardians have to say about your use of language and did it have any effect on you?
Who was more likely to correct your language, your mother or your father? Anyone else?
Do you remember particular comments or instances where your speech was commented on?
Did you ever try to learn non-standard forms in a second language, and if so, how did you go about doing it?
Have you ever experienced linguistic prejudice?
Has anyone ever told you to talk in a certain way (less ghetto, less white, less country, with a higher or lower pitch, etc.)?
Was there a grammar rule that gave (gives) you trouble in English or in learning another language? What is it? Do you remember finally being able to get the grammar rule right (at least some of the time)? How long did it take? How did you go about trying to fix or fixing the issue?
Have you ever gone to another country and struggled with the language?
Have you ever been praised for your Standard English fluency?
Have you ever heard an offensive comment or joke about someone’s language use?