Unit Four Sac Flashcards
Examples
- doggolingo
- keep our mob safe
- parma/parmi
- Oxford dictionary
- Kinne tonight
- dan Andrews speech
- push to change anatomical jargon
- Kyle Sanders rants about Sam Smith’s non-binary pronouns
Example: doggolingo
On website dogshome.com, nouns “doggo” and “Hooman” are used as an identity marker for those who like dogs. The use of these terms allows for in-group amongst dog lovers.
Use of doggolingo holds covert prestige among those who use it
Example: Kinne tonight
Cockblocked by grammar is a video by Kinne tonight in which the field is grammar. Coworkers and romantic interests Kinne and Natalie hold conversations via text and Natalie portrays a prescriptivist attitude towards Kinnes use of non-SAE such as verb “breathe” instead of noun “breath” and adjective “loose” instead of verb “lose”
Kinne shows descriptivist through his use of non-SAE. Portrays SAE to hold overt prestige and his inability to use it can exclude due to prescriptivism.
Example: Oxford dictionary
Article Oxford dictionary is cleaning up sexist language on theguardian.com.au depicts Oxford dictionary to attempt political correctness through ensuring they do not threaten positive or negative face needs of females through “rabid female” and “nagging wife”
Attempts removal of discriminatory and exclusive language.
Attempts to uphold egalitarianism (view that everyone is equal) which is a strong Australian value.
Example: keep our mob safe
Video advertisement by Australian Government targeting indigenous populations concerning health during Covid-19. Uses noun “elders” and noun “mob” to appeal to the covert prestige held by AAE speakers so as to achieve connotative function of persuading people to follow health guidelines such as washing hands.
Example: parma/parmi
In Tiktok by ‘Bruhofficial’ a driver as the NSW birder is told to go back to Victoria after using the shortening of italian borrowing parmigiana “parma” rather than diminutive “parmi”.
- shows covert prestige and inclusion held when considering geographical variation.
- shows in-group markers and exclusion that can be created from non-SAE variations
Example: Dan Andrews Facebook post
Dan Andrews Facebook post from 20th of July 2020 outlines how face coverings will become mandatory, as a precaution during the covid-19 pandemic. As the premier of Victoria, Dan utilises SAE for mutual comprehensibility, with phrases such as noun phrase “face coverings”.
This is as SAE is the most prominent Lingua Franca in Australia, thus being the most acceptable form of language to utilise when making a public announcement to the state of Victoria. SAE is also necessary to use in this context as it holds overt prestige and allows the premier to identify himself as educated, which is necessary as he is a politician
Linguist quotes
“A non-standard dialect is a massive valid communication system as the standard” - Kate burridge. Portrays how despite SAE acting as a prominent Lingua Franca,other varieties such as AAE also aid mutual comprehensibility.
When considering language change “a lot of people see deterioration” (David crystal), outlining the prominence of prescriptivist attitudes when language change takes place.
“Language tells us who we are because we are the words we use” - Hugh Lunn. Show how language reflects identity and in-group
Identity if written
- use of elevated Lexus to appear educated (elicit trust from audience)
- lexemes related to field to show understanding of field etc
- any references to something to appear part of in group
- female/male markers such as conjunctions, face needs, cooperative then taking
Identity if spoken
- elevated lexis to appear educated
- field related lexis to appear educated in field
- in-group market lexis (covert norms)
- male/female markers such as conjunctions, face needs, and cooperative turn-taking, HRT
Register if written
- nominalisation
- syntactic patterning
- semantic patterning
- any written features i.e brackets
- fragments
- irony
- passives voice
Register if spoken
- false start, repair, fillers, voice hesitation, overlap, pauses
- syntactic or semantic patterning
- nominalisation
- ceded questions
- vocatives
- passive voice
Discourse if spoken
- turn taking likely to be easiest: interrogatives, HRT, elongated vowels, overlap, discourse particles, pause fillers, conjunctions,
- initiation due to topic exhaustion. Change due to avoidance. Development through conjunctions, declaratives, interrogatives
Build rapport/maintain social distance by
- appealing to face needs (questions, HRT, addressing person, providing reason, back channeling)
- use of humour
- inclusive language
Examples: push to change anatomical jargon
News.com.au July 2020
Doctors call for better representation in ‘biased’ anatomical terms
- “more practical and descriptive terms for body parts will be favoured over the irrelevant, confusing, and often misogynistic terminology of the past”
- Achilles heel to heel tendon
- Fallopian tube to uterine tube
