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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