LING 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sociolinguistics, Diglossia
6 Dec 2018
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Discourse (structure of whole conversations, what gets said when and how) Add all of these together to get speech variety. All the speech varieties they use are a speakers linguistic repertoire. Some peoples repertoires may be broader/narrower: who we are affects how we talk. Four contextual factors: four contextual factors. Participants social distance/ solidarity and status. (can be someone you know, or. Setting formality where you are and what is going on. Ex: talking to pastor one on one is different than in front of the congregation. Age plays part in status: formality (of the setting) Ex asking for from a sibling gat home. This is in general, but not always. Assume they you are either highly referential or affective. There can be instances where this is not true, but in general it is a rule to go by that usually stands. Ex: a hello that is not very enthusiastic/ is just being polite: sociolinguistics.
