ANTH 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nonstandard Dialect, Chicano English, Max Weinreich
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Variations in language are evaluated differently by different people. Descriptive vs prescriptive rules: what is correct and incorrect, most formal way to evaluate language. Does this example break a descriptive or prescriptive rule: she doesn"t know him, she don"t know him(complete variation, but it is consistent in many variations of. English, performing a function = breaking a prescriptive rule) Standard english: uniform pronunciation and vocabulary, language of the educated, language taught in schools, language used in the media. Today: more on regional dialect variation, american tongues , dialects vs languages. Any variety of language that is hare by a group of speakers(wolfram & shilling- Mutually intelligible forms of a language that differ in systematic ways (fromkin, rodman and hyams, 2003) Example: african american english (aae); chicano english (che: dialect(3) A language is a dialect with an army and navy (max weinreich) Dialect chains: long chains of interrelated dialects with no clear internal boundaries.
