LIN3342- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Assessments: midterm: 19th oct (25%, end of session test: 13th nov (25%, group presentation: 29th nov (15%, final take home: 21st dec (35%) Robin lakoff (author) accused of not considering context in her book in the (cid:1005)97(cid:1004)"s. Overview: study of the interaction between language and society, 2 questions, what can vary, how is variation constrained, very heart lies the notion of variation, all language is varied, 2 caveats, acknowledged for 120 years. 20th century linguistic dismissed variation as random: william labov, variationist sociolinguistic, suggested that the rules of variation are implicit and internalized. Lexis: most labile component of language//most subjective to change. Ethnolect: may be appropriated by people outside of the host society; very common in english. Language is contextually restrained, stylistic variation: constrained on variation, external/extra-linguistic constraints, age, social class: sociolect, gender: genderlect, ethnicity: ethnolect, education. Individual: idiolect: can be internal/linguistic restrained on variation, systematic constraints.
