Linguistic Biography

The first part of your assignment is to get data (information and evidence) from two people who will help you understand the attitudes and beliefs around another language or dialect. You are to ask two people but only use one (in case one person isn’t as helpful as you’d like, you have a choice). Then, your assignment is to turn those answers to your questions into a narrative. You will be telling the linguistic biography of that person and explaining the linguistic attitudes and beliefs. You will be quoting from the person, but since you are the author, you need to have certain important features of an essay 1) introduction that leads to a thesis, 2) topic sentences, 3) examples/evidence from your interviewee, 4) analysis by you in which you explain what the person said and then present some reasons or information for how and why the person might think or feel that way.