ALDS 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sociolinguistics, Social Actions, Class Discrimination

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies
• Course: ALDS 1001
• Professor: Chloe Grace Fogarty- Bourget

Document Summary

Mediational/mediating: acting with or through something (language is a. Discourse (talk, any conversation), utterance (piece of discourse), text (thing studied) Social action (any actin taken in society that gives off meaning) Brain works to turn sound into meaning and vice versa (lightning speed, not usually conscious) *textbook only sometimes takes sign language/ nonverbal into account. Clients not usually used as a term. Folk" theory: prejudiced to modern forms of language/ discounts folk theory. 1): linguists who study and apply grammar, prescribe how people should be using language. 15): how language is used in culture, element of sociology. Ideologies (p. 18) also widely held beliefs and understanding about society is and should be. Epistemology, p. 18: study of forms of knowledge and how we come to know. 1450-1950 half (6000) of all languages disappeared, another (3000) will disappear by the end of this. Matter because identity, culture, world knowledge, human rights (language rights.