LING316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Trademark Infringement, Language Death, Language Change
10 Jan 2017
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A group of language speakers abandons their heritage language. Can it be prevented? o language death. Two ways of saying the same thing. How linguistic analysis can be used in the courts o trademark infringement o typography identification. This will follow from our discussion of discourse analysis. Good/bad language wonderfully complex and sophisticated they are?) There is no good/bad, right/wrong in language. Consider the phrase: what are y"all do"n after work? . An error in edmonton english since it goes against the norms of how we speak o i ain"t doin" that o i woulda went . These are not ungrammatical (they are non standard) o me and my friend . Our linguistic, i. e. empirical approach means we consider such data. Observable patterns, not imposed patterns is interested in real, observable language use. We study the natural properties of human language. We study the features shared by all languages (universals) We study the features specific to a given language.
