HLTC22H3 Lecture 5: LINC28 – Lecture 5.docx
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Intervention you interfere with language. i. e. used to have mr. instead of mrs. and miss: wasn"t inclusive so it had to be changed, variationists sociolinguistics look at sociolinguistic variables in relation to macro social variable (i. e. age, ses, descriptive vs. prescriptive, prescriptive tells you what to do (i. e. language manuals, variationists sociolinguists treat gender as an independent social variable, relates to speech community. Perceptual boundaries very subjective: graph, gender does matter in this from different social class, women tend to use more of the standard form than men in the same social class, peter trudgill was the first to find the significant variation (the prestige based explanation, labov"s principles about gender and class intersection, assuming men"s language is the standard, known as the gender paradox, awareness of language.
