LIN 1300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Ethnography, Diglossia, Emic And Etic

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 1300
• Professor: Laura Kastronic

Document Summary

Social organization, cultural meaning is reflected in structure, lexicon, convention of language. Categorizing ppl reflects cultural ideals of social organization. Shows what characteristics the speaker values/considers relevant to social organization. Language competence requires cultural understanding, not just producing grammatical utterances. The length of time waiting to begin talking. E(cid:374)d of o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s tur(cid:374) is sig(cid:374)aled (cid:271)(cid:455) sele(cid:272)ti(cid:374)g (cid:374)e(cid:454)t speaker or tag qs (utterances beginning w statements ending w. Know linguistic forms and socially stratified rules of greetings. Associated with certain social groups question about truth of statement) Adjacency pairs: pairs of adjacent utterances, made by 2 speakers. Politeness: normative, expected linguistic/extralinguistic strategies culturally agreed to be appropriate for a given situation. De(cid:272)idi(cid:374)g (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h ho(cid:374)orifi(cid:272)s to use depe(cid:374)ds o(cid:374) k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge of perso(cid:374)(cid:859)s age, so(cid:272)ial positio(cid:374), a(cid:374)d role. T = comfortable/familiar person, or speaker is of higher status. V = formaility, respect, power differential between speaker and listener, strangers. Association of some linguistic characteristics with some social groups and power is arbitrary.