LIN 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sociolect, Language Contact, Ethnolect

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Stylistic changes- interlocutor - changes depending on context. Efflorescence of symbolic activity during adolescence, they also experiment with language. Study of how language is changing in apparent time (generational change) If change is present it will be due to the younger speakers. Sociolinguistics examines the inter-relationships between language and society. These relationships take many forms, but they minimally involve some kind of correlation between social categories and linguistic categories. More technically speaking, sociolinguistics focus on the co-variation of linguistics (sometimes called internal or systemic) variables and social (sometimes known as external or extra linguistic) variables. Gender (socio cultural elaborations of sex)/sex (genderlact) At the heart of the study of language and society is the notion that all living languages vary (writing behaves differently) As wardhaugh (2009(cid:707) poi(cid:296)ts out, (cid:718)each la(cid:296)(cid:258)ua(cid:258)e e(cid:382)ists i(cid:296) a (cid:296)u(cid:295)ber o(cid:257) (cid:376)arieties(cid:719) Thus (cid:377)he(cid:296) (cid:377)e talk about (cid:718)ca(cid:296)adia(cid:296) (cid:257)re(cid:296)ch(cid:719), (cid:718)a(cid:295)erica(cid:296) e(cid:296)(cid:258)lish(cid:719) (cid:377)e (cid:296)eed to recognise that these labels are an abstraction.

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