Linguistics 1028A/B Lecture 1: LInguistics 1028 Lecture Notes

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

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Lecture 1: we will be looking into sociolinguistic variation. The order of things in a sentence and grammar variation. The world over vs. all over world different expressions due to age perhaps. Ethnoloect gives away our ethnology, aka the way we speak when in a group of our kind" i. e. friends or family. Markers vs. sociolinguistic indicators: mutual intelligibility. Even if theres variation in speaking you still understand: saliency (noticeability) Naming issues: a language is a dialect with an army and a navy -max weinwreich. Sociolects speaker and audience informed mostly by socio factors i. e. Each of these objects of study requires its own methods and approaches . Language variation (time: linguistics factors, social factors: class, ethnicity, gender, standard/non standard. Speech variety/speech community: mutual intelligibility, slang accent. Language variation and social distinction: variationist sociolinguistics examines structures variation. Variable the thing with several possible realizations: th for example. Each possible realization: ([d], [v]. etc. ) is considered a variant.