Key terms Flashcards

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Social group

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People that have something in common and a form of community

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Social class

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A division of society based on economic and social status

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Sociolinguistics

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The study of the relationship between language use and social factors

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Theolinguistics

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The study of the relationship between language use and region

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Sociolect

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The style of language used within a particular social group

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Genderlect

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A style of language thought to be distinctive of men or women

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Dialect

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A style of language used within a particular geographical region

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Ethnolect

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A style of language thought to be characteristic of an ethnic group

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Familect

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A style of language used within a family

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Idiolect

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An individual’s personal language use

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Pragmatic rules

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The unspoken rules that operate in interactions between people who share a common understanding

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Social network

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A network of relations between people in their membership of different groups

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Density

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The number of connections that people have in their social network

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Multiplexity

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The number of ways in which two individuals may relate to teach other in a social network

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Network density score

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A score Milroy gave to people based on working together, living close to family members and socialising with each other

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Diphthong

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A sound that combines two vowels in a single syllable

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Convergence

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Becoming more similar to another person’s language use

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Upwards convergence

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Convergence where a regional speaker becomes more RP. It shows they like the RP speaker

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Downwards convergence

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Convergence where an RP speaker becomes more regional. It shows they like the regional speaker

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Divergence

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Becoming more different from a person’s language use

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Overt prestige

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Status gained from public approval/recognition

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Covert prestige

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Status gained from peer-group approval/recognition

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Preconsonantal position

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A sound produced before a consonant

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Final position

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A sound produced at the end of a world eg floor

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Velar nasal
The name given to the /n/ sound eg king, tang
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Observer's paradox
A situation in which the phenomenon being observed is unwittingly influenced by the presence of the observer/investigator
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H-dropping
Omitting the /h/ sound at the start of words eg hat, horrible, hospital
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Hypercorrection
Using language that is wrongly deemed to be correct because it is associated with a more prestigious variety. It often refers to wrong pronunciations
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Restricted code
Language that focuses on the here and now
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Elaborated code
Language that is much more explicit and independent of context
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Community of practice
A concept conceived by Love and Wenger. It refers to a group of people who have come together and have established ways of doing things and of interacting in order to achieve a shared purpose
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