LIN 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Stigma, Social Stratification, Double Negative
22 Mar 2016
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You might associate some of these examples with uneducated or lower-class speakers: (you ain"t seen nothing yet) In other words, some of these examples are socially stratified (they are found among certain social groups in paricular) You might consider some of these to be proper english/proper french" whereas others you may consider to be bad english/french", poor grammar", incorrect," lazy", etc. According to the linguist jean aitchison, a linguist is interested in what is said, not what she/he thinks ought to be said". She/he describes language in all its aspects, but does not prescribe rules of correctness". The kinds of grammars that linguists are interested in describing include the rules" that generate the non-standard examples from english and french shown earlier. They are interested in the rules" and principles" that underlie all varieies of a language. These rules are not necessarily the ones that are found in grammar books, but are acquired in speech communiies.
