L315: Lab 6 Name: _______________________________________

11/29/2017
Objectives:
A. Practice identifying domains of use of H and L varieties in diglossic communities
B. Practice analyzing various forms and functions of code-switching and code-mixing
C. Set up the final PowerPoint presentation of your research project (Draft 1 due Monday, Dec. 4)
Materials:
Canvas & Umail/Google Drive
Textbook companion website: http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/meyerhoff/ (Resources > Exercises)
Miami Bilingual Corpus: http://talkbank.org/browser/index.php?url=BilingBank/Bangor/Miami/

A. Practice identifying domains of use of H and L varieties in diglossic communities (10 mins)
1. Follow the instructions and complete the companion website exercise on Multilingualism (Part III):
http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/meyerhoff/exercise3.asp
2. With your teammates, discuss and answer the following questions:
a. What are the High and Low varieties in the diglossic part of Switzerland?
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b. The features that distinguish H and L varieties examined here are (circle one):
lexical / phonological / syntactic / pragmatic
c. Domains of the H variety use: _____________________________________________________
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d. Domains of the L variety use: _____________________________________________________
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e. Domain (1) where both varieties are acceptable: _______________________________________
f. Diglossia is a form of societal bilingualism. Does it also imply individual bilingualism?
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B. Practice analyzing various forms and functions of code-switching and code-mixing (15 mins)
Open the Miami Bilingual Corpus: http://talkbank.org/browser/index.php?url=BilingBank/Bangor/Miami/
I. Mara speaking English: In the left-hand menu, click on eng/ (English conversations) > maria02.cha
> Uncheck %mor (leave %eng checked to see English translations) > Hit Set options
1. Examine the metadata in the top few rows of the transcript (beginning with @) and extract the following
personal and situational information about the conversation:
a. What language(s) is/are used in this conversation? _____________________________________
b. What do we know about the main participant, MAR (gender, age)? _______________________
c. What do we know about the person(s) MAR is speaking to? _____________________________
d. Based on the description of the @Situation, what domain is this? _________________________
e. Based on prior knowledge, what is the likely H variety to be used in this domain? ____________
2. Play the conversation, follow along in the transcript, and analyze it as follows:
a. What is happening in this conversation? (e.g. story-telling, invitation, negotiation, report)
b. Locate Spanish insertions: lines ____________________________________________________
c. Are the Spanish insertions examples of code-switching or code-mixing? Explain.
d. What are some potential reasons for strategic use of Spanish in this English-matrix conversation?
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L315: Lab 6 Name: _______________________________________
11/29/2017
II. Mara speaking Spanish: In the left-hand menu, click on Miami to return to main Miami menu > Choose
spa/ (Spanish conversations) > maria21.cha > Uncheck %com and %mor > Hit Set options
1. Examine the metadata in the top few rows of the transcript (beginning with @) and extract the following
personal and situational information about the conversation:
a. What language(s) is/are used in this conversation? _____________________________________
b. What do we know about the person(s) MAR is speaking to? _____________________________
c. Based on the description of the @Situation, what domain is this? _________________________
d. Based on prior knowledge, what is the likely H variety to be used in this domain? ____________
2. Just skim the conversation transcript and analyze it as follows:
a. Mara is making some phone calls about an issue and narrating the results. How is this different
from the genre of the first conversation? _____________________________________________
b. Locate English insertions by searching for switches (Ctrl+F > @ > scroll down to see the
highlighted insertions): lines ______________________________________________________
c. What are the exact English insertions? ______________________________________________
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d. Based just on the English insertions, can you tell what the phone calls and the story are about?
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e. Is this switching to English domain-based, addressee-based, or something else? Explain.
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III. Comparisons and conclusions:
1. What kind of knowledge does Mara have of English? (active/passive) And of Spanish? (active/passive)
2. Compare the metadata of the two conversations. Why would these conversations be located in two
different corpora? What differentiates them?
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3. What would you say are some possible functions of code-switching among Spanish-English bilinguals
in Miami?
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C. Set up the final PPT presentation of your research project (20 mins)
1. Visit Canvas > Groups > [Your research group] > Collaborations > Create new > Kind: Presentation
2. Locate, copy, and paste the template presentation into your collaborative document (Files > L315-
FinalPPT-Template). Note that each slide includes instructions for annotations in the notes section.
3. Name your presentation with your research project title and include the names of your team members.
4. Discuss and pencil in the Introduction (the main points you want to get across and raise awareness of).
5. Locate your old Annotated Bibliography and find the sources that can provide Background for these
issues/arguments (ideally no more than 2-3 slides of review).
6. Strategize, divide up the work, and create a timeline for getting it done BEFORE the night before.
DEADLINE: PPT Draft 1 (Introduction Background/Literature Review) is DUE Monday, December 4.

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