Each week, you will be asked to respond to the prompt or prompts in the discussion forum. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length, and is due on Sunday. By Tuesday, you should respond to two additional posts from your peers.
Refer to Chapter 6 of Looking Out, Looking Inand answer the following:
- Think of a time when you spoke with someone whose speech violated the syntactic rules that you are used to.
- Explain the scenario and the situation.
- Identify what you thought about that person. What was your first impression?
- How was your impression of that person influenced because he or she did not follow standard linguistic rules?
- Think about it in hindsight. Was this first impression valid? Why or why not?
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