LIN251H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Basil Bernstein, Dialectology, Language Change
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Interested in how children of lower socioeconomic statuses did more poorly in school. Studied reading issues for aave speakers systematic study of variation. Made many linguistics discoveries preceding their discovery in america. Language is inherently social and society is inherently linguistic. We define who is in our society by how people talk. Generic statements can"t be made about every speaker of a language. We look into their societies for extra clues. /r/ drop: women tend to adopt language change about a generation quicker than men. Note: project 1 due oct 17 http://individual. utoronto. ca/ngn/lin/courses/lin251/lin251_projects. htm#project1. Keep a journal recording your observations of language use and sociolinguistic variation. Journal = data source for project 2. Be ready to record at any time. Try to be as objective as possible in the data section leave opinions and speculation for comments. You can be part of the data, but stronger data is observed. Try to cover as many levels of language as possible.
