LINA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Saks Fifth Avenue, Chicano English, African American Vernacular English
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Compare north end italian accent and boston brahmins (sounds british) Like any other factor: part of social identity. Social dialects: interactions of many complex factors, but overall, language is used to project social identity. Variation within individual speakers: register: formal or informal, interlocutors (people in conversation ex. Social factors (social affiliation, social situation): ex. age, gender, ses, level of education, occupation, race, ethnicity, social networks, topic, interlocutor, register (level of formality) Ain"t" vs. isn"t": multiple negation (we don"t do that no more. , [r]-drop, youse, he don"t vs. he doesn"t, ask" as [aeks] No stigma: pop vs. soda, dived vs. dove, dreamed vs. dreamt, pajamas [a] or [ae] They are merely variations; there should be no stigma attached to certain pronunciations. Social dialects: social evaluation of linguistic features: prestigious vs. stigmatized. The standard" changes over time (labov r-drop was standard until it became stigmatized at the end of wwii) Value judgements are arbitrary (social not linguistic reasons)
