Sociolinguistics - Lecture 1

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Sociolinguistic Approaches

  1. sociology of language

  2. ethnographic-interactional sociolinguistics

  3. language variation and change (variationist sociolinguistics)

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Sociology of Language

macro; quantitative; Joshua Fishman

concerns the distribution of languages and patterns of language use across societies, regions, and culture

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Sociology of Language Methods and Topics

methods: relies on survey data and quantifies patterns in the data

topics:

  • language maintenance and shift

  • language planning

  • language policy

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Ethnographic-Interactional Sociolinguistics

macro; qualitative; Dell Hymes and John J. Gumperz

study of language in social contexts is done via analyzing the cultural conditioning of speech events

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Ethnographic-Interactional Sociolinguistics Topics

topics:

  • conversational structure

  • turn-taking strategies

  • norms of interaction

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Language Variation and Change

micro; quantitative; William Labov

the analysis of everyday interactions looking at multiple/repeated choices the speakers make

language variation and change as a function of different identity factors, the social context, and linguistic factors

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Language Variation and Change Topics

topics: language variation and change as a function of different identity factors, the social context, and linguistic factors