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Why Is Understanding Human Language Important?
- Many of the examples discussed in this chapter highlight how language use is connected to group and individual identities (e.g., national identity or gendered identity). Using three examples from this chapter, discuss the relationship between identity and language use.
- Discuss the relationship between colonialism and linguistic change using two examples from this chapter.
- Why is ethnopragmatics important within the context of linguistics?
- What is the difference between “strong” and “weak” versions of the linguistic relativity principle? Provide examples from this chapter.
- How is human language related to human symbolic ability in other areas—like art or making tools?
- What impact would language ideology have on the shaping of pedagogy systems in Canada, particularly for Indigenous learners?
- Explain how language makes clear and makes opaque at the same time.