LIN 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Social Cue
18 Nov 2018
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Two way street- language influences society and society influences language. Ex: language policies, dictionaries, etc. that include language use as criteria. As a sociolinguistic, language and identity are firmly joined for me. The way we speak is intimately tied up with who we think we are and who we want others to think we are. I think that the way we speak reveals more about who we are than any other social cue. For many people, the answer is identity. And it is tied up with the notion of indexicality, or the property of signs that. Point to specific contexts of occurrence found in all forms of language. Ex: speech patterns related to different dialects index the social identity of speakers. That is, they only work in contexts where listeners recognize what"s happening. Ex: y"all as marker so southerness (but only for people familiar with. Thus, in performing language with indexical meanings, we create for ourselves a social persona.
