LINA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: William Labov, Yinglish, Received Pronunciation
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Ethnic gp dialect: e. g. pennsylvania dutch, yinglish, african american eng, chicano eng, italian: hist/lang contact, in-gp, pt of social identity. Italian @ boston: [a] x[o] b4 [r] @ short, forty. Lower class ppl @ missouri: [u] x[ju] @ news, due. Gang @ harlem: [ n] x[ ] @ -ing (individual speaker variation: register, interlocutor i. e. who are you talking to, topic. Social evaluation of linguistic features: prestigious vs stigmatised arbitrary cuz social & subject to ch e. g. r-drop = prestigious vs stigmatised @ uk (=received pronunciation) vs us (cuz upper class r) 4th floor study: by william labov; ask once = casual vs ask again = emphatic/say clearly => Saks vs macy s vs s. klein = high vs mid vs low class; salesperson = same socioeconomic gp but customer in contact w/ = diff => 1. More likely @ word end x @ mid. Linguistic insecurity: mid class tend to follow upper class.
