sociolinguistics Sarah Alshamran

Welcome Instructor: Sarah Alshamran Course name: sociolinguistics Credit hours: 3 Email: sociolinguistics17@gmail.com

Regulation

Attendance If you cannot attend a lecture, please email me before your class. Sick leave is obligation for attending the alternative exam. Sick leaves should be submitted maximum 2 days from your absence.

 15 mins

Marks and testing

Testing Schedule Examination date Mid term Thursday 26/10/2017 week 6 Essay week 9 FINAL EXAM

topics Language and society: dialects / types of regional and social variation within languages/ pidgins and creoles/ conceiving of languages as codes/ multilingualism Language changes: factors/ language convergence/ Language genesis/ Language death Language and culture: speech in a broad social context /terms of address and expressions of politeness and what they mean /essential characteristics of everyday language / gender/ ethnicity/ language policy issues. Understanding and Intervening: Education/ international sociolinguistics

Reference http://home.lu.lv/~pva/Sociolingvistika/1006648_82038_wardhaugh_r_an_introduction_to_sociolinguistics.pdf

Society and language Introduction

What is …? Society Language is any group of people who are drawn together for a certain purpose or purposes is what the members of a particular society speak ( *in sociolinguistics context)

The knowledge of language It is the relationship between language and speakers. Language is not only the knowledge described in grammar, syntax ..Etc. People knowledge of language is extremely much more than what is described in a grammar book. Individual knowledge is either knowledge they own or knowledge shared Dead language= dead speakers Speakers knowledge of a language is an Abstract knowledge Language is communal possession: individual access proper use Competence and performance: competence is the knowledge that can be identified by linguists and performance is users use of language

Language and society Linguists … sociologists study language in relation to its natural context/ ideas/ history/ region examine the language items ( sound, words, structures ..etc) study society structure, people interaction … examine how people manage to live with each other ( power, identity, politeness, face, gender … etc)

Language and society Relationships between language and society. social structure may either influence or determine linguistic structure and/or behavior. linguistic structure and/or behavior may either influence or determine social structure. (language and gender) the influence is bi-directional: language and society may influence each other. there is no relationship at all between linguistic structure and social structure and that each is independent of the other. (asocial view)

Sociolinguistics is … an attempt to find correlations between social structure and linguistic structure and to observe any changes that occur. Gumperz (1971) the study of the social uses of language, …. determining the social evaluation of linguistic variants. Chambers (2002) ‘the sociolinguist’s aim is to…move towards a theory which provides a motivated account of the way language is used in a community, and of the choices people make when they use language.’ Holmes (1992)

Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of Language micro-sociolinguistics is concerned with investigating the relationships between language and society with the goal being a better understanding of the structure of language and of how languages function in communication ‘the study of language in relation to society,’ macro-sociolinguistics is trying to discover how social structure can be better understood through the study of language, e.g., how certain linguistic features serve to characterize particular social arrangements. ‘the study of society in relation to language.’

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