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 This section deals with social aspects of language - how language is used in our society and its variation among speakers from different regions and social groups.
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Linguistics -
Sociolinguistics
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Friday, 01 August 2008 00:47 |
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A pidgin is a grammatically simple language that develops as a result of intense interaction between speakers of two or more different languages when the speakers do not fully learn the language of each other but instead use vocabulary of the social elite/dominant group and the grammar of less prestigious but more frequently spoken languages. No one speaks pidgin as a native language. |
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Linguistics -
Sociolinguistics
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Written by Taura Shams
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Friday, 01 August 2008 00:41 |
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The USA has great linguistic resources; however, they have always been ignored or even destroyed. The USA is predominantly a monolingual English-speaking country.The majority of the immigrants do not speak their native languages past two generations. Indigenous languages of Native Americans disappear as fewer and fewer speakers of those languages continue using them in their daily activities. There are very few people in this country who are trying to learn non-English languages and even fewer who actually succeed in doing so. All these things happen because in the United States multilingualism is not receiving a proper support from the majority of the population and state/federal government.
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Linguistics -
Sociolinguistics
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Written by Taura Shams
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Friday, 01 August 2008 00:29 |
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Individual multilingualism refers to the ability of an individual person to use more than two languages fluently. Societal multilingualism is linguistic diversity that can be found in a country. In multilingual countries, there are people who speak two or more languages that receive governmental support and that can even be official languages for those countries. |
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Linguistics -
Sociolinguistics
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Friday, 01 August 2008 00:25 |
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The term “sociolect” is the same as “social dialect”, and is used as a label for the alignment of a set of language structures with the social position of a group in a status hierarchy. It is used to refer to differences that are associated with groups that are unequal in status and power. |
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Linguistics -
Sociolinguistics
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Friday, 01 August 2008 00:22 |
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Principle of linguistic inferiority refers to the tendency of speakers of the socially dominant group in a society to interpret speech of a subordinate group as linguistically inferior to that of their own. This bias is likely to be found among the speakers of the ‘standard’ variety of a language due to the differences of various groups in their status and power relations. Linguists consider any dialect/variant of a language to be ‘fundamentally regular’ and worthy of its existence. |
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Linguistics -
Sociolinguistics
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Friday, 01 August 2008 00:10 |
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A vernacular dialect is a variety of English that is associated with a socially subordinate group. This term is analogous to the term ‘vernacular language’ in the way that the latter is used to identify a local or native language vis-à-vis the official standard language in a multilingual society. |
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