1 / 17

L23B: Sociolinguistics 2005-2006

L23B: Sociolinguistics 2005-2006. Please Turn off all cellular phones & pagers. L23B Website: www.mona.uwi.edu/dllp/courses/l23 b. Course Assessment. Incourse Test (40% of total grade) TEST DATE: MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2006 (2-4pm) Final Exam (60% of total grade). Topics for this Session.

richardjsmith
Download Presentation

L23B: Sociolinguistics 2005-2006

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. L23B: Sociolinguistics 2005-2006 Please Turn off all cellular phones & pagers L23B Website: www.mona.uwi.edu/dllp/courses/l23b

  2. Course Assessment • Incourse Test (40% of total grade) TEST DATE: MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2006 (2-4pm) • Final Exam (60% of total grade)

  3. Topics for this Session • Brief Review • Qualitative vs. Quantitative Analysis • Examples

  4. Qualitative vs. Quantitative Analysis • Quantitative: linguistic variables are counted or quantified. Eg. Labov • Qualitative: involves description and analysis rather then counting of features. Eg. Bernstein

  5. Quantitative Analysis Example: Production of ‘t’: opportunities [t] [/] Female 1 – (23) 14 9 Female 2 – (51) 36 15 Male 1 – (45) 5 40 Male 2 – (38) 12 26

  6. Quantitative Analysis • Example 2 Casual Formal Informant A [t]15%; [t]40%; []85% []60% Informant B [t]65%; [t]90%; []35% []10%

  7. Quantitative Researches Examples: • Labov – New York City (1966, 1977) Prescribed Text chapter 13 • Trudgill – Norwich (1972, 1974), Prescribed Text chapter 14

  8. Trudgill (Norwich) Main Findings: • hypercorrection towards the prestige pronunciation among middle class group • women often ‘over-reported’ • men under-reported

  9. Trudgill (Norwich) Main Conclusions drawn: • Men and women had different notions of ‘prestige language’ • Men - ‘reversed hypercorrection’ • Hence distinction between: Overt & Covert Prestige.

  10. Qualitative Analysis Example: How does the doctor inform a patient that he/she must take more exercise and stop smoking? • “How about losing some weight?” • “Could you try to take some exercise?” • “Stop smoking & lose weight now!” • “If you don’t stop smoking you will die soon”

  11. Qualitative Analysis Example: Bernstein (1961) proposed 2 distinctive linguistic patterns: • Restricted • Elaborated

  12. Elaborated – make use of grammatical order & syntax -use complex sentences, subjunctive, embedding - frequently used pronouns ‘I’ - richer expressions

  13. Restricted • short grammatical sentences • poor syntactic form • limited use of adjectives & adverbs rely on idioms and proverbs

  14. Bernstein (1961) • Main Conclusions drawn: (1) working class had less access to elaborated form (2) public formal education requires elaborated form (3) upbringing affected language

  15. Bernstein’s research criticized because of: • Data collection method used • Generalizations made. Eg. lowerworking class • Qualitative difference in the type of speech was not proven by Bernstein • Poor school results may not be related to language.

  16. THEORIES developed to account for variation Social Networks Accommodation Theory Acts of Identity Ideology & language use

  17. Sources 1.Social Network Prescribed Text ch. 16, Wardhaugh (pg.127-130, 180-183), Holmes (pg.183-191). • 2.Acts of Identity • LePage (on reserve), Prescribed Text ch. 20. • 3.Accommodation Theory • Prescribed Text ch. 18, Holmes (pg. 230-234). 4. Language and Ideology Prescribed Text ch. 6, Woolard (available at DITTO).

More Related