LIN 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Surrogate Model, Code-Switching, North American English
3 Feb 2015
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Prof info: rm 418 arts, fri 10-11am, slevey@uottawa. ca. Sociolinguists study the relation btw language & society, extralinguistic factors (social/external factors- sociodemographic categories) & how they vary w socioeconomic status, sociolinguistic patterns examples: Gender (social, cultural, not fixed, can change) & sex (biological difference, relatively fixed) Age gives important window on language change, comparing language btw generations (change is in the younger) Education kind of knowledge, how to use it, the standard language . Ethnicity ethnolects: variation of language in ethnicities eg: ebonics controversy african/american v. english (black kids as speaking a. How real language is used in daily social settings (real language how you actually speak, not how you should" speak) Speech dial used when not engaged in audio-monitoring (not thinking, just speaking) Like was used as early as 1778 (eveling) 18th cent! (see pp) Eg nova scotia black man speaks differently from standard english (taught in school)
