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WORDS\/LANGUAGE<\/p>\n
This activity demonstrates not only the connection between language and culture, but also the differences between cant, jargon, argot, and slang. You should gain an understanding of what each term means and how it is or is not specific to a certain cultural group. Write your definitions for the words listed below and post them. Try to do all of them- some are really hard. Make use of Google and other online research methods. The first two are answered for you.<\/p>\n
Then answer these questions:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Why are these words generated and used by a particular co-culture? (any culture in the U.S. that is within our national culture). How do they function for a co-culture? Can you think of other words that these co-cultures use?<\/p>\n
\u2022 What experiences have you had where you did not understand the English that was being spoken because of the use of cant, jargon, argot, or slang?<\/p>\n
\u2022 What other co-cultures have a distinct cant\/dialect, jargon\/branding, or argot? What are some examples?<\/p>\n
Cant\/Dialect, Jargon\/Branding, Argot, and Slang<\/p>\n
Term<\/strong> Definition Type Co-culture<\/p>\n <\/strong>1. hotty someone attractive slang no one in particular<\/p>\n 2. demo musical release before a CD argot musicians<\/p>\n 3. bird<\/p>\n 4. first chair<\/p>\n 5. header<\/p>\n 6. off case<\/p>\n 7. swallows<\/p>\n 8. Bottom Woman<\/p>\n 9. jam<\/p>\n 10. can<\/p>\n 11. Harry<\/p>\n 12. Mary Jane<\/p>\n 13. transformer<\/p>\n 14. scrub<\/p>\n 15. T<\/p>\n 16. bitchin<\/p>\n 17. Phat<\/p>\n 18. John Waynes<\/p>\n 19. Donnicker<\/p>\n 20. slum<\/p>\n 21. PT<\/p>\n 22. flat backer<\/p>\n 23. merchant<\/p>\n 24. bug juice<\/p>\n 25. 2-top<\/p>\n 26. mustangs<\/p>\n 27. macking<\/p>\n 28. high \u2018n tight<\/p>\n 29. GL ticket<\/p>\n 30. shift<\/p>\n 31. skins<\/p>\n 32. bonbon<\/p>\n 33. Bill<\/p>\n 34. oiled<\/p>\n 35. schemiel<\/p>\n 36. float<\/p>\n 37. yetna<\/p>\n 38. chicken coop<\/p>\n 39. IRA<\/p>\n 40. seat covers<\/p>\n 41. Tijuana taxi<\/p>\n 42. one L\u2019s<\/p>\n 43. Ginger<\/p>\n 44. 86<\/p>\n 45. grat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Follow the instructions: WORDS & LANGUAGE WORDS\/LANGUAGE This activity demonstrates not only the connection between language and culture, but also the differences between cant, jargon, argot, and slang. You should gain an understanding of what each term means and how it is or is not specific to a certain cultural group. Write your definitions for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_joinchat":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}