ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Language Geography, Speech Community, Linguistic Anthropology
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Covers many things such as linguistic anthropology, geo-linguistics, dialectology etc. Dell hymes: he started the ethnography of speaking. (look at functions of language, what language does, language exists in speech communities) Speech community: a community of speakers who share the same verbal repertoire and norms of linguistic behaviour. Benefits of the concept: a heuristic tool. (a learning aid) The way you speak could tell you about your social class. Code-switching: the language of the most powerful group has the highest status. (english and french speaker talking in quebec, they end up talking to each other in. Rules of talking in certain countries are different. (telling jokes, story telling etc. ) 1. swearing: men swear more than women, men swear less when women are around. Women who swear less let loose when they are in a group of friends. 5. intonation (change in pitch/tone of the voice): female speech is more dynamic, males are more monotone.
