LINB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Language Shift, Speech Community, Mutual Intelligibility
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Language as a social entity (sociology of language) Sociology of language: study language and how it can affect the society, they treat language as an social object like art and so on, can be regulated and debated. 3 outcomes when an immigrant family moves to another country: retain l1 (old country"s language, retain l1 + learn l2, lose l1 + learn l2. To get to stage three it takes at least 1 generation. Language maintenance: continuous use of their ethnic language in a different speech community. Ethnolinguistic vitality (ev): ability of a speech community to retain their language, how widely the 1st language is spoken in a new speech community. If institutions use the language it helps retain the language. In canada, in markham hospitals have signs in tamil and chinese along with english. How prestigious is your language in your own eyes and the community you moved into. How big is your speech community here, size of group.
