Linguistics 1028A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, Mutual Intelligibility

• School: Western University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: Linguistics 1028A/B
• Professor: Stephanie Kelly

Document Summary

Sociolinguistics norms: makers vs. sociolinguistic indicators (tells a little bit more about the person) Australia or england (the accents are simply just a way in which sounds are produced) Saliency (noticeability: for example: the world over, these particular idios are salient (specific to one"s speech, salient= means something is noticeable, it stands out. A language is a dialect with an army and a navy max weinwreich. Different languages are called dialects: the naming issue is language vs. dialect. As linguists: we refer to any and all languages as a language! We can relate similar languages as having the same mothers. Standard vs. nonstandard: standard the formal/proper way to speak: it is the system that is taught in school, nonstandard. Everyone has a dialect determined by our identity. Sociolects informed mostly by socio-factors: factors that come from gender, age, economics, similar, but below mutual intelligibility.