Anthropology 2245F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: First Language, Language Shift, American Majority
24 Oct 2016
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Identify factors that influence multilingual policies and practices at societal and individual levels. Most of those are small in the sense of number of speakers. The status of a language is directly related to the socioeconomic status of the speakers of that language need external support for a language to continue. Dialect a group of closely related varieties: not so much about the differences, but the similarities, in some sense people have the idea of standards around language, dialect seen as less than, dialect regionally/geographically close together. Language has a standard what is wrong/right. ** no country has everyone speaking the exact same language. Mcarthur 2005: the study of language and their relationships. 7 level-model for classification of languages: number of speakers, functions, regions of influence how many people around would use that language, english in a category itself english language complex . A single entity but has multiple varieties.
