Anthropology 2249F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Discourse Marker, Sociolinguistics, Paralanguage
27 Nov 2018
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What do sociolinguistics study: variation in language use, variation according to social factors. Interactional sociolinguistics: correlation of linguistic variables with social differences, examples, pronunciation: milk, fragile, z , vocabulary: dinner/supper, grammar: needs washing/needs to be washed. Objective: recognize and analyze contextualization cue and discourse markers, examine how languages are used as resource for identity construction and stance-taking, identify methodological issue analyzing multilingual texts. Interactional sociolinguistics: what is the focus of interactional sociolinguistics, correlation of interactional variables with social/cultural differences, examples, turn-taking rules, identifying speech acts, polite disagreement. Conclusion: even the smallest features of discourse can be meaningful, we can learn about linguistic processes and social interaction by analyzing them. Negotiating social relationships with language: language choice broadly defines the whole interaction, language choice identifies the speaker and also the intended listener/reader. How is code-switching in sms communication meaningful: switches can be contextualization cues, displays of stance/closeness to a person when switching to a language you both share.
