LIN 1300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Diaphoneme, Linguistic Description, Sociolinguistics
16 Jan 2017
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Labels (ex canadian french) = impression that languages are discrete, uniform, and homogenous. Sociolinguistic patterns: correlation between linguistic variation and social categories. Linguistic variable: heart of sociolinguistic, variants: alternative ways of saying the same thing (vocab, phonological, grammatical difference) Variation constrained by internal (linguistic) and external (social) Goes into speech communities, record speech of different genders, age groups, social classes, ethnic groups. Questionnaires: i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)ed (cid:271)y pres(cid:272)ripti(cid:448)e rules, all (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)es (cid:373)ight (cid:374)ot (cid:271)e there, (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t say that they say o(cid:374)ly o(cid:374)e thi(cid:374)g. Rapid + anon surveys: collect a lot of data, but subjective and lacking social description. Most systematic contextual style, best source for tracking variation and change. Elicit narrative of personal experience (have member of speakers speech community conduct interview) Allow speaker to lead the topic (informal topics, danger of death qs) Language variety used in certain area where language is spoken, roofed by standard variety. Set of linguistic characteristics shared among group of people.
