SPHR 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Chicano English, Discourse Analysis, African American Vernacular English
28 Dec 2016
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Study of the relationship between language varieties and social structure & the inter- relationships among different language varieties. Cover term to refer to any form of language characterized by systematic features. Language variety specific to each individual native speaker in form and structure. Any variety of language spoken by a group of people characterized by systematic differences in structural or lexical features from other varieties of the same language. ( can be region or based on social factors) :within a country. Refer to nonnative and native speakers or a language. Defined in terms of extralinguisitic factors (region, se status, age, gender, ethnicity) Results when a group of speakers form a coherent speech community relatively isolated from speakers outside that community. If two dialects are mutually intelligibility, they are from the same language. ex: nationalism, politics. When in a large number of contiguous dialects, each dialect is closely related to the next but not those at the ends of the continuum.
