LIN 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Apposition, Pronoun, Saks Fifth Avenue
4 Apr 2018
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Social dialects (aka sociolects) - speech varieties that characterize people from different social classes or ethnic groups. Contextual factors (influence of preceding and following sounds and words) Structural factors (varies depending on part of speech, position in sentence, etc) Ethnicity (nationality, tribal affiliation, religion, language, cultural/traditional origin, or common history) Socioeconomic class (occupation, level of education, income, or type of residence) Me and john went to the store vs. john and i went to the store. My parents was there vs. my parents were there. My mom, she works at stony brook vs. my mom works at stony brook. Stigmatized variants - linguistic elements that are socially (cid:498)marked(cid:499) and that receive negative social attention. Prestige variants - positively valued features associated with socially dominant and favored groups; quite rare in the american english-speaking community. When linguistic variables pattern with social variables like class, ethnicity, and gender sharp stratification - wide separation between adjacent social groups.
