LING 2P72 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Haitian Creole, Noam Chomsky, Swahili Language

• School: Brock University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 2P72
• Professor: Tom Farrell

Document Summary

Noam chomsky: linguistic competence: knowledge of language of ideal speaker-hearer in homogeneous speech community : strong reaction from leading sociolinguistic of time, dell hymes. Idealisation far from reality of most of worlds experience. Competence: sociolinguistic competence of immigrant"s granddaughter usually differ from grandfather, she could have lost ethnic language, while developing wider range of styles in language of new community. If you live in a monolingual community: social group you belong indicated by, your pronunciation, grammar, vocab, or all of these, you also indicate, gender in way you speak. Sociolinguistic universals: all speech communities, have linguistic means of distinguishing different social relationships- solidarity and status, have linguistic means of distinguishing different contextual styles- code, have linguistic means of expressing basic speech functions. Real exam questions: summarize lo- code and racial identiy a mis match, formalityhomles, which isn"t a socilal factor that affects the variety used in convo- code.