Linguistics - Sociolinguistics

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What is sociolinguistics?

Social aspects of language use

  • variation across dialects (which vary across geographic regions)

  • variation across speech communities (age, ethnicity, socioeconomic class)

  • variation within an individual based on context

  • etc.

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Why do variants exist?

  • Patterns of contact → people who interact with each other will align in their phonetic characteristics

  • Drift → languages change over time, so dialects that are not in contact may diverge

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Variation Across Dialects

  • Lexical Differences → different words for the same thing (soda vs. pop)

  • Pronunciation → (caught vs. cot)

  • Morphological and Syntactic Variants → (southern “might could”)

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What are dialects?

Regional, social, or ethnic variations of a language characterized by distinct vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation