Informed by sociolinguistic research, yet written accessibly, Keep Your Word challenges readers to investigate the act of promising as it relates to both language-use and inclusivity.
- This engaging and delightfully illustrated book invites students to engage with concepts such as:
- The cultural meaning of the idiom "keep your word",
- Speech Acts and Felicity Conditions, two frameworks that linguists use to research and understand promises,
- Why the expectation to "keep your word" can make someone feel excluded,
- How understanding the way language works can help learn to be more inclusive.
Featuring practical inclusivity tips related to promises, this enriching curriculum supplement can be used in a Language Arts setting to learn about figurative language; in a Social Studies setting to discuss div