LIN 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jean Aitchison, Social Stratification, Social Stigma
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These examples tend to be associated with uneducated or lower-class speakers. I said, (cid:498)that ain"t no cattle. (cid:499) these examples are socially stratified . The idea that young people use (cid:494)bad grammar(cid:495) because they are losing grammar. This is a familiar trope (recurrent theme) which is often rehearsed in the media. Commonly associated with children, however, it is a change in progress as it actually. According to the linguist jean aitchison, (cid:494)a linguist is interested in what is said, not what she/he thinks ought to be said. (cid:495) Descriptive rather than prescriptive: describes language in all its aspects, but not prescribe rules of (cid:494)correctness(cid:495). Linguists are interested in the (cid:494)rules(cid:495) and (cid:494)principles(cid:495) that underlie all varieties of a. These rules are part of what is referred to as (cid:494)linguistic competence(cid:495). These rules are not necessarily the ones that are found in grammar books, but they are. Standard languages do not impose naturally, but rather historically.
