LIN 3342 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Speech Community, Sociolinguistics, Canadian English

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 3342
• Professor: Stephen Levey

Document Summary

It is structural, extra-linguistic and internal linguistic factors. Overview: targeting speech community as site for data collection, questionnaires, rapid and anonymous survey, sociolinguistic interviews, building in sample: random sampling methodologies, quota or judgement sampling. What is a speech community: a group of people that share a set of norms and rules for the use of language (s, change form above: above a level of consciousness, labov: r variable in quebec. Why focus on speech community instead of individuals for social embedding and patterns of variation and changes: the existence and directionality of change can only be confirmed by examining its diffusions across a community of user. Individuals innovate but a linguistic change is not considered a genuine change until it has been diffused throughout a community of speakers and been accepted: spread and accepted by community. Interview data can be time consuming to collect, so what alternate, more rabid method is there: rapid and anonymous surveys.