LING 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mixed Language, Dialect Continuum, De Facto
9 Mar 2016
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Your society/culture may influence how you pronounce words and what words you use: language influences society. When you think in german, for example, you think differently than when you think in english (you ask different questions, adopt a different thought process, etc. : macrosociolinguistics. Sexist critique of language (some language reinforce traditional gender stereotypes: bidirectional influence. Variety: subdivision of a language (coherent set of linguistic elements with an identical distribution) Dialect: variety of french that has a written literature. Patois: variety of french that does not have a literature. A language is made up of dialects, never the opposite. Community a speaks a certain language and then migrates toward another territory. B, so communities a and b speak more or less different languages (different dialects) and so on. Both communities may understand other dialects of their language, but sometimes there is lack of mutual intelligibility this is when there is a language difference.
