[LING 320] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 30 pages long Study Guide!
29 Mar 2017
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Correlation sociolinguistics: social factors influence speech (age, sex, social class) this helps to explain language change. Sociology of language: the role of language in human behaviour and social organization. Traditionally: language was thought of as abstract: society did not have a role in language. Modern: linguists look at data from a single informant: noam chomsky: single ideal speaker in a homogeneous group (in fact there is no such thing as a homogenous group) Competence can be found in homogenous group free variation is not rule governed, language is determined by social context. Language is a living thing it is born, undergoes changes and dies. I leave my house to my son george. All of these utterances have a social context, we know right away. Language has two different functions communicate info social function (construct social identity for our self: we can vary linguistic signals (there is more than one way to say a sentence)
