“Languages and beliefs about language have social and political implications. Beliefs about the correctness of the dominant language become so much a part of people’s everyday thinking that they fail to see that these beliefs are socially constructed. Rather, the dominance of the standard becomes part of their everyday consciousness, unexamined and naturalized” (Bonvillain 416).
Discuss the concepts of standard language and language variety with reference to their “social and political implications.”
Use this quote as well: “Studies of language ideologies and resistance to dominant varieties can attempt to connect the processes of face-to-face interaction with social, economic, and political orders. Members of some stigmatized communities may sharpen or exaggerate their differences from the dominant forms. For example, a dialect of Caribbean immigrants and their descendants in Great Britain, called Afro-Lingua, turns the tables on standard English, opposing some widespread metaphoric constructions that transmit negative images of “black” and positive images of “white”. For example, black is depicted as bad or dangerous. “A black day” means that on a particular day things have gone badly for the whites. “A black sheep” in the family means the worst or most detested member of the family. One sees, quite clearly, that black is associated with the devil and hell and with death. At the same time the assumption is that white is good, right, pure. There is no doubt that the black/white opposition is racial and racist.” (Bonvillain, 415)
Focus on social and political implications of language in terms of “standard language” versus vernaculars such as black English and what that produces.
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