Social Groups Flashcards
The studies of social groups
Grice
“Quality, quantity, relevancy and manner maxims determines the success of conversation”
Romaine
“Communities are essentially social not linguistic”
Labov
“Communities are not defined by any marked agreement in language usage”
Holmes & Meyerhoff
“Membership in communities depend on social or behavioural characteristics”
Pinker
“Language is a window on everyone’s psychology”
Crystal
“Language is a transient aspect of our social identity”
Montgomery
“Communities have ritualised exchange of insults”
Connell
“Hegemonic masculinity amongst boys in a sport’s changing room”
Harness Goodwind & Berentzen
“Children constitute their social world through embodied language”
Koester
“Social interaction forms part of a framework”
Milroy
“There are open and closed social networks”
Granovetter
“Weak ties function as bridges for diffusion of change”
Swales
“Social groups sharing a common goal communicate internally with various modes”
Drew & Heritage
“There are pragmatic understandings inherent to work”
Ives
“People speak differently depending on their age”
