Linguistics 1028A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Zero Copula, Hypercorrection, Chinook Jargon

• School: Western University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: Linguistics 1028A/B
• Professor: Stephanie Kelly

Document Summary

Sociolinguistic variation: speech community, sociolinguistic norms, markers (salient features), indicators, language versus dialect, standard, variety, ethnolect, sociolect, slang. Language contact: mixed language michif, chinook jargon, pidgin, creole. How do we distinguish from within a regional community: starts with class, gender, ethnicity, age, slang dependent on class and age, slang vs. jargon. Income: amount of education, type of housing, class/prestige. Over time, sociolinguists have focused on occupational prestige as the major indicator of class. Variants: associated with upper class= prestige, e. g. These things vs. dem tings: e. g. walking vs. walkin car [ka ] vs. [ka] Class: occupation prestige is the major indicator of class, upper class variants carry the most prestige, two higher prestige forms phonological and syntactic, strong relationship between class and careful speech styles. In ny they tend to drop the r" sound. He went into 3 different dept. stores and asked for an item that would be found on the 4th floor.