Sociolinguistic Artifacts

This sketch features an app that teaches adults how to speak to children. This is an excellent parody of American caregivers feel pressure to accomodate young children in conversation. The video focuses primarily on message production strategies as described in "Indexing Gender." Citation: Ochs, Elinor, Indexing gender, Rethinking context: language as an interactive phenomenon, pp. 335-358, Cambridge University Press, 1993