ANT253H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Spray Painting, Erik Erikson, Sigmund Freud
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Psycholinguistic - focus on relation btw language and construction of self. Sociolinguistic - focus on relation btw language and social identity. Grammatical morphemes appear to reveal more about personality than do content words (noun, adj, verb . Restricted code intended to convey allegiance to group while declaring independence from both childhood and mainstream society. Medieval university student uses lupi "wolves" to refer to spies who reported on other students. Used by teenager to signal important diff. they see btw themselves and older ppl. Social dialect of standard language that is shaped by age based l-profile. Emotivity is a feature of slang socialist. Aim at description of others or evaluation of specific social situation. "gaining control over marked linguistic features shows a growing competence in use of communicative strategies that both realize and regulate behavior and speech patterns appropriate to gender and peer group membership"
