LING 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Flag Of Canada, Canadian English, Ethnolinguistics
14 Mar 2018
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This week: ethnolinguistic variation and change, key concepts and terms, ethnicity in canada, ethnic varieties of english, case studies. Roots of canadian english: loyalists, eastern new england to nova scotia, west new england to ontario and western canada. Immigrants from southern europe (italy, greece) and eastern europe (ukraine, Immigrants to canada: 1900 - 1980: most immigrants around the 1900s were coming from the british isles, quite significant change: used to have a lot of immigrants from america and the british isles, now decreased. Increased of european immigrants, but the makeup of them changed. What is ethnicity: socially constructed, difficult to define, shared ancestry, shared culture, shared language, physical characteristics, national origin, religion, shared history, unifying vs. exclusionary, self-definition (vs. imposed categorization, subjective, most significant factor, correlations with linguistic variation (sometimes) Indigenous english; vietnamese english e. g. absence of marked tense form: yesterday he play at the school, before we at home a lot, but now we don"t, tricky part:
