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UNIT 2 - Directions in Language and Society Flashcards

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Difficulty with sociolinguistics

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The problem lies in the drawing of the line between language and society and sociolinguistics.

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Directions in Language & Society
Sociological Objectives

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Ethnomethodology

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Directions in Language & Society
Sociological & Linguistic Objectives

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  • Sociology of Language
  • Anthropological Linguistics
  • Social Psychology of Language
  • Discourse Analysis
  • Ethnography of Communication
  • Language & Gender
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Directions in Language & Society
Linguistic Objectives

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  • Traditional Dialectology
  • Variationist Sociolinguistics
  • Geolinguistics
  • Historical Sociolinguistics
  • Creole Sociolinguistics
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THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE

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the study of who speaks which language (or variety) to
whom

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THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE
Assumption:

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all speech varieties are worthy of investigation and that the non-standard ones are not precisely deviations from the standard.

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THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE

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deals with attitudes to varieties of language, and with the way in which speakers interact with each other through conversation.

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THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE
Assumption:

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Arbitrariness and subjectivity of social attitudes

The intellectual and emotional response of the members of the society to the languages and varieties in their social environment.

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ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS

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studies language variation and use in relation to the cultural patterns and beliefs of man

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ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS
Assumption:

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an interpretation of socially determined meaning

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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

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Looks analytically at texts to achieve a greater understanding of textual cohesion and coherence

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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
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seven basic factors that are necessarily involved in any speech event, characterizes social interaction

✓ a SENDER (addresser),
✓ a RECEIVER (addressee),
✓ a MESSAGE FORM,
✓ a CHANNEL,
✓ a CODE,
✓ a TOPIC, and
✓ a SETTING (scene, situation)

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THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION

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studies the norms of communicative conduct in different communities

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THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION
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Conversation is a rule-governed activity with seven basic invariable principles
BUT: conversational rules vary cross-culturally:
✓ Formulae
✓ Silence
✓ Loudness
✓ Directness/Indirectness
✓ Telephone behaviour
✓ Distance

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LANGUAGE & GENDER

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language and gender differences in the use of language and conversational strategies on the part of men and women

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LANGUAGE & GENDER
Assumption:

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Language and equality

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TRADITIONAL DIALECTOLOGY

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Traditionally concerned with the systematic study of regional dialects. Regionally distinctive words were the centre of attention of dialectologists

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TRADITIONAL DIALECTOLOGY
Assumption:

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Dialects are (NOT PRECISELY!) homogeneous and discrete entities separated by dialect boundaries. They focussed on regions.

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VARIATIONIST SOCIOLINGUISTICS

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linguistic variation
investigating topics such as the mechanisms of linguistic change, the nature linguistic variability, and the structure of
linguistic systems.

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VARIATIONIST SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Assumption:

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*Language use and change are not only regionally but also socially conditioned.
*Linguistic variation is not free at all, but constrained by social, contextual and/or linguistic factors.

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GEOLINGUISTICS

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concerned with the study of the geographical dispersion
and behaviour of linguistic elements

  • linguistic geography (Dialectology),
  • urban dialectology (Variationist Sociolinguistics), and
  • human geography (Geography)
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GEOLINGUISTICS
Assumption:

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A more dynamic dimension of the study of language phenomena occurred over physical geography: the linguistic variable can improve our knowledge of the relationship between language and geography, and of the geographical setting of linguistic change.

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CREOLE SOCIOLINGUISTICS

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The sociolinguistic study of pidgin and creole varieties

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CREOLE SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Assumption:

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Pidgin and creole languages are worth investigating.

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HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS

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The sociolinguistic study of the history of languages

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HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Assumption:

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The linguistic behaviour of ancient sociolinguistic communities
may perfectly have been determined, to some extent, by patterns of sociolinguistic behaviour

observed by Sociolinguistics

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