LING316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Yankee Group, Diphthong, Oneword
10 Jan 2017
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According to lakoff: social change creates language change, not the reverse, social change must precede lexical change one cannot purely by changing language use change social status. Others state that as long as women use a language constructed principally by men and which underscores their subordinate status, social reform will be impossible or extremely limited (is it a tool or simply a reflection?) Educational psychologist, having interviewed black kids who spoke in. Labov was able to elicit verbose output when the situation was modified. Even in the first case, the children showed discursive skills. Labov concludes that the educational psychologists" conducted an uncontrolled experiment since they didn"t pay attention to the speaker"s interpretation of their intentions. Regional variety learned by blacks in plantation settings. Started out as a creole, result of english in contact with west african languages and over time we"ve moved along the post creole continuum towards the acrolect.
