LING 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Speech Community, Lexicalization

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 300
• Professor: Jacqueline Peters

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Define: all conscious efforts that aim at changing the linguistic behavior of a speech community & or/ Define: the creation of a linguistic standard or norm for a selected linguistic community. Step (s): gratification = developing a writing system, grammatication = deciding on rules/ norms of grammar, lexicalization = identifying vocabulary. Define: the choice of a language variety to fulfill certain functions in a society. Language as a problem, a right or a reason. Define: accelerating the downsizing of one or of the linguistic minority groups, to promote the use of one single language. Define: giving full legal rights to one linguistic groups, the dominant one and the minority groups are give(cid:374) (cid:862)special status(cid:863) a(cid:374)d protectio(cid:374) Define: favoring the official language of a community. Define: aim to foster communities where members are fluent and comfortable in more than one language.