LING 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: African American Vernacular English, Decreolization, Indo-European Languages
24 Apr 2017
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Ling 320 lecture 15: pidgins and creoles / language contact phenomena. #5 index of vernacular culture helps identify overt and covert social norms. A common means of communication between speakers of a single speech community/ countries/inter-community contact etc. Contact language: evolve when people don"t have the opportunity to learn a lingua franca, and a compromise language is created. Diglossia: a power differential (perceived or otherwise) of a high code used for speci c purposes and a low code used more in daily culture. Code switching: alternation of codes within a context of speech. Borrowing: transfer of linguistic elements from language to another (eg. loanwords) Most common/prominent example of a lingua franca today is english. Used as a symbol of social interest and prestige. Travel information/airports often bilingual with language of the country and english. Some people are not comfortable with the level of bilingualism in their country/locality. E. g. quebec with speci c resistance/opposition to bilingualism that includes english.
