Produce of a list of specialized lexical items on a profession

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Produce of a list of specialized lexical items on a profession

For this assignment you are to produce a list of specialized lexical items associated with a recreational pastime or profession.  A good way to choose your topic is to think of a community or subculture that has formed around a specific activity– K-Pop fans, bodybuilding, Instagram make-up tutorials,  drag queens, etc.  You can also focus on terms associated with a line of work, as you see in our first reading this week, Carol Cohn’s “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals” or the online article on “garbage language” in creative start-up companies.  Of course what are recreational activities for some are also professions for others, so these two categories overlap.

Your job is to create a list of a minimum of twenty specialized terms and their meanings that are associated with the activity that you choose and analyze their meanings and use.  Your list of focal vocabulary should be commonly known to people who specialize in your choice of activity.  The assignment has two parts:

A list of lexical items and a short paper discussing both the nature of the activity and analyzing the lexical data you have collected.

The lexical items should be alphabetically as a list, include definitions and if possible, an example of the item in use in an actual sentence.  The list should be at least 20 words or phrases, but you are welcome to exceed that.

Produce of a list of specialized lexical items on a profession

The paper should be a minimum of 600 words not counting the list of words and definitions. Remember that you can always exceed word minimums in our class.  Your paper should provide a brief description of the activity and the group or community using the lexicon.  Who are these people?  What do they have in common?  What ages, gender, and ethnicity do they tend to be?  Is the lexicon in social groups and during specific activities?  Describe them.  How are the words are use, by whom, and for what purposes?

Here you can use your knowledge of the people or community that employs the terms or ask members of the community about their usage.  A requirement of your assignment is that you should collect the majority of your data from actual people.  You must work with at least one real person, an “informant” to collect your lexical data. When you collect your data you should also ask your informant for additional information about the social contexts in which the terminology is and by whom. Is there a community?  What kind of activities do they engage in together?

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