LING 2P72 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Noam Chomsky, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Competence
15 Jan 2016
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Linguistic competence: knowledge of language of ideal speaker-hearer in homogenous speech community. Strong reaction from leading sociolinguist of time, dell hymes. Challenge: must account for knowledge people have to use language appropriately in a range of diverse social contexts. Appropriate: know sociolinguistic rules for speaking in a community. Understand the influence of social factors on speech behavior. Children gradually develop linguistic repertoire of linguistic codes/varieties appropriate for different domains (innately) Immigrants granddaughter differs from grandfather may have lost ethnic language while developing wider range of styles in language of new community; may have retained ethnic language. Vernacular: first language that people learn, may be unwritten. Lingua franca: language of wider community; often essential addition to repetoire. Standard: has writing system; grammafied; people with money; more status and used more widely than vernacular. Pidgin/creole: develop initially as a lingua franca; pidgin is never the only language in someone"s repetoire.
