LIN 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cant (Language), Interrupt, Polari
6 Nov 2017
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The study of the interaction of language and social factors. Focuses on how people vary in their production of language. There are a variety of differences among different cultures. Italian marks adjectives for gender of speaker. In montreal french, women delete /i/ less than men. In xhosa, women must avoid syllables that occur in their in-laws" names. As with other social variables, gender can play a role in language variation. That is, women and men often speak differently. Everyone has experienced miscommunication that was attributed to gender differences. Gender has long been taken as a give , based on biology. People have brought the notion of clear-cut categories into questions. What has been brought into question has been the biological nature of gender. Differentiation of speech behavior between males and females related to physiological. Research has shown these linguistic advantages tending to correlate with female sex.
