LING 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Free Variation, Joshua Fishman, William Labov
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Sociolinguistics is a continuum from more linguistic to more socio . Constraints are probabilistic, not categorical (they"re likelihoods, not absolutes). Can be done without considering big picture issues like power. Learned words, less often in formal, structured speech. Social factors- more often boys than girls, more often by working-class speakers, less often by. Societies choose a language to use by official languages, schooling, and media. Sociolinguistics is often qualitative (interviews, not counting things). Tps- think: take a minute to consider the question, pair: discuss your stuff with the person sitting next to you, share: tell the whole group about any interesting findings or conclusions. William labov- the godfather of modern sociolinguistics, studied in. Fishman- studies of language, planning, status, endangered languages, sociology of language. Sociolinguistics grew in the 1960s and 1970s because of technology allowing better recording equipment and computers for analysis. Interest in social issues arose through educational and social inequality and more university students from previously under-represented groups.
