LIN251H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Canadian English, Threading Building Blocks, Blue-Collar Worker
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Early matched guise test: lambert, giles & picard 1975. Monday october 3, 2016: mc (middle class) and lc (lower class) canadian french, mc madawaska english, mc non-regional english, european french. Asked to read le petit prince" in different dialects: mixtape derived from several speakers reading text, 1 dialect had multiple speakers. Participants asked to listen to recording and rate qualities of speaker (ex. intelligent vs not intelligent, attractive vs ugly), state how much they"d like to be like that person, and. Linguistic marketplace: for some jobs, how you speak is important (ex. Radio announcer, lawyer vs. blue collar jobs like truck driver, mailman) Only thing that changes between speakers is what dialect they"re speaking; yet participants make judgements on the dialect alone. Ways that language contact occurs: colonialization, politics, migration, border contact, imported goods, tourism, education, media, conflict, religion, work, trade, commerce, business. Causes: exploration, trade, conflict, migration, colonization, work, religion, education, tourism.
