LING 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Vocal Fry Register, Creaky Voice, Modal Voice
25 Feb 2016
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Kinds of social meaning: regional identity, social class, register differences (not covered last time, linguistic features are often perceived to possess the qualities that they signal. We think that low class speech signifies that someone is uneducated. Underprivileged communities endure prejudice because of this. In the trayvon martin case, the witness rachel jeantel"s testimony was not considered credible by the jury because she spoke aave: e. g. features used by working class sound careless/uneducated, today: linguistic attitudes toward underprivileged communities. Tense/aspect system: (1) he runnin" (present tense, (2) he be runnin" (present habitual, (3) he done lost his keys (perfective) He has lost his keys: (4) he be done washed all the cars (future perfect) He will have washed all the cars. Habitual/durative be: (5) the office be closed on weekends, (6) why you be runnin" in the street so much, (7) he be hiding when he knows she"s mad. You are not supposed to say, she be at home .
