Anthropology: Language in Society

Assignment #2 Dialects & Accents

View the following clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AEkLXkDgWI

In a two-paged, double-spaced, 12-point-font essay, discuss the relationship between dialect and character in this clip from the Walt Disney film Aladdin. Describe, in as much linguistic detail as you can, the dialect (including accent) of at least one of the characters in the clip.

After doing so, describe how the dialect contributes to the character’s role in the clip. How does speaking one dialect over another create, in the audience’s mind, a more developed sense of who the character is, what their motivations might be, as well as their shortcomings?

Use your readings to help you answer the question.When you cite readings use the Chicago style. For more information on how to cite properly following the Chicago style, go here: http://www.temple.edu/writingctr/handouts/citationguides/ChicagoCitationGuide.pdf or here: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html . I recommend in-text citations–(Author Date, page #). Remember to include a bibliography when you cite. Points will be deducted for lack of organization, improper or missing citations (including web pages) and references, as well as for vague, general, and/or unsupported arguments.

Related materials:

The Social Art (TSA), Chapters 12-14, & 16.

Language Myths (LM) # 4, 8, 13, 14, 17

Optional very short film on Hawaiian pidgin. http:// www.youtube.com /watch? v=O7X9AAeDCr4

The major shopping areas in the community of Springdale include Springdale Mall, West Mall, and the downtown area on Main Street. A telephone survey has been conducted to identify strengths and weaknesses of these areas and to find out how they fit into the shopping activities of local residents. The 150 respondents were also asked to provide information about themselves and their shopping habits. The data are provided in the file Shopping (attached below). The variables in the survey can be found in the file Coding (attached below).

In this exercise, some of the estimation techniques presented in the module will be applied to the Springfield Shopping survey results. You may assume that these respondents represent a simple random sample of all potential respondents within the community, and that the population is large enough that application of the finite population correction would not make an appreciable difference in the results.

Managers associated with shopping areas like these find it useful to have point estimates regarding variables describing the characteristics and behaviors of their customers. In addition, it is helpful for them to have some idea as to the likely accuracy of these estimates. Therein lies the benefit of the techniques presented in this module and applied here.

1. Item C in the description of the data collection instrument lists variables 7, 8, and 9, which represent the respondent’s general attitude toward each of the three shopping areas. Each of these variables has numerically equal distances between the possible responses, and for purposes of analysis they may be considered to be of the interval scale of measurement.
   1. Determine the point estimate, and then construct the 95% confidence interval for μ₇ = the average attitude toward Springdale Mall.
   2. Repeat part (a) for μ₈ and μ₉, the average attitudes toward Downtown and West Mall, respectively.
2. Given the breakdown of responses for variable 26 (sex of respondent), determine the point estimate and then construct the 95% confidence interval for p₂₆ = the population proportion of males.
3. Given the breakdown of responses for variable 28 (marital status of respondent), determine the point estimate and then construct the 95% confidence interval for p₂₈ = the population proportion in the “single or other” category.
4. Assume the managers have requested estimates of the mean attitudes towards each mall with a margin of error of 0.05 for each. If the managers want to have 95% confidence that the sample mean will fall within this margin of error, how large should the sample size be for each mall?

Paper Requirements

Write a report that APA format. Items that should be included, at a minimum, are a title page, an introduction, a body that answers the questions posed in the problem, and a conclusion paragraph that addresses your findings and what you have determined from the data and your analysis. As with all written assignments, you should have in-text citations and a reference page. Please include any tables of calculations, calculated values, and graphs associated with this problem in the body of your assignment response. The paper must be 3 pages along along with the EXCEL file report.

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