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Sociolinguistics PLINX210

Sociolinguistics PLINX210. Me: Dick Hudson, Professor Richard Hudson, Dick, …. Tutorials. MA tutorial? Mon 4 BA tutorials Mon 2, 12 (1) Thurs 11, 12 (1). The course website. www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/soc/socio.htm. What is sociolinguistics?. The study of the relation between

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Sociolinguistics PLINX210

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  1. SociolinguisticsPLINX210 Me: Dick Hudson, Professor Richard Hudson, Dick, …

  2. Tutorials • MA tutorial? Mon 4 • BA tutorials • Mon 2, 12 (1) • Thurs 11, 12 (1)

  3. The course website www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/soc/socio.htm

  4. What is sociolinguistics? The study of the relation between • language • I.e. the structure of language • I.e. words, sounds, constructions, relations • society • I.e. the structure of society • I.e. people, groups, relations

  5. How is language structured? • Individual words, forms, sounds, meanings • Classes of words, forms, sounds, meanings • Relations between co-occurring words etc. • Relations between words/word classes and their forms and meanings, etc.

  6. How is society structured? • Individual people, institutions, things, etc. • Classes of people, etc. • Relations between co-occurring people, etc. • Relations between people/classes and their institutions, things, etc.

  7. How are language and society related? • Their structures are similar: inheritance networks. • Items of language are related to items of society - e.g. as • their names, as individuals or classes • what they say • what others say to them

  8. What is an inheritance network? • A set of items (nodes) • Each node is connected to at least two other nodes. • Each node is part of at least one inheritance hierarchy. • Nodes are connected by relations of different types: ‘is-a’, ‘father’, ‘subject’, ...

  9. What is an inheritance hierarchy? A classification system in which • nodes are connected by the ‘is-a’ relation. • a lower node ‘is-a’ higher node, i.e. is an instance (member, sub-class, example) of it. • each lower node inherits all the characteristics of all the higher nodes by default (but may be exceptional).

  10. So what? • Language and society have very similar structures. • The language structure is our linguistic competence. • The social structure is our ‘social competence’. • So social and linguistic competence are similar.

  11. Preview • Week 2: How language influences our knowledge of the world. • Week 3: How we classify people and language varieties in terms of languages and dialects.

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