LING 115gw Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nisei, Tok Pisin, Ottoman Empire
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Unit 2: diglossia and code switching (in multi-lingual societies) Use of two or more languages in different situations or in the same conversation mixed together (code-mixing) Norway (norwegian) --> bokmal (main) and ranamal (local/regional) Bokmal: student talking to a teacher, formal conversation in a church, gov"t office talk, tv/ Ranamal: talking to your family/friends, talking to shop-keepers Someone growing up in south africa knows on average: Afrikaans (dutch mixed with african languages from dutch colonization) Someone growing up in the democratic republic of congo (formerly zaire) knows on average: Switzerland (4 official languages: german, french, italian, and romansh) Haiti (unusual situation because they appear to be two different languages) Situations of h vs. l - domains/areas of life. Family/friends i. e. paraguay --> h (spanish), l (guaran ) Extended diglossia: people use two completely different languages for the same functional differences. Middle ages, england --> english (l), french (h-i) latin (h-z)
