LIN 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Quotative, Interjection, Southern American English
1 May 2017
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Style and register: speech styles: systematic variations in speech based on factors like topic, setting, and addressee, registers: different levels of formality, style shifting: automatically adjusting from one speech style to another. Differs from other varieties only in lexical items: work jargon, hobby jargon, common slang: the nearly neutral everyday language that most people consider just a little too informal for letters for application and the like. In-group slang: more specialized slang of a particular speech community. Standard dialects and notions of prestige: p(cid:396)estige: a la(cid:374)guage does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a sta(cid:374)da(cid:396)d diale(cid:272)t, (cid:271)ut i(cid:374)stead diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t (cid:448)a(cid:396)ieties that speakers consider to be the standard. Standard varieties are the ones associated with prestige and power: standard american english (sae): the standard dialect in the us. Variation at different levels of linguistic structure: phonetics: not all /r/s are the same: some english and scottish dialects have trilled r while most. Lexicon: pop is common in the northwest, coke in south.
