Intro to Sociolinguistics
An exploration into the relationship
between language and culture.
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Course title is: Sociolinguistics. These lecture slides from Sociolinguistics course includes following key points: Introduction, Fundamental Question, Meaning, Language as Grammar, Noam Chomsky, Grammar, Representational, Lexical, Competence, Performance, Squishy
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Intro to Sociolinguistics
An exploration into the relationship
between language and culture.
Fundamental Question
a. What is the relationship between language and culture?b. Humans are the only animal to have culture
c. Humans are the only animal to have language. d.
How do the two connect? e. What is language? “what members of a particular
society speak” (Wardhaugh 1).
Three Views of Language
o
Language as Grammar: o
Language as communication: o
Language as thing:
- Syntactic Structures •Review of Skinner: ‘
Verbal
Behavior’
(1959)
Universal Grammardifference between surface structure anddeep structure in language
Noam Chomsky
(1928-)
Grammar
-^
Three sub-systems
-^
Representational
-^
Phonology (sounds), graphic, gestural
-^
Lexical
-^
morphology; words and morphemes
-^
( Syn)tactic
=
syntax
Language as thing
- Language as an element in social constructs.• Language planning, code switching, dialect
debates.
Note: to distinguish between and language
and communication,
look at the following questions:
1. Is language as Dawkins suggests part of theDNA of homosapiens?2. Is there a “creative” component (the horriblehoneybee story)
Competence v. Performance
Langue
v
parole
Structure
v^
event
Structural
v^
communicative
universal
v^
dialect
Let’s take five more minutes tochat about discussion questions2, 5, and 6 on pp. 15 and 16 of
Wardhaugh.
Relations between language and
culture Wardhaugh pp. 9-
Social structure may influence ordetermine linguistic structureand/or behaviour
Linguistic structure/behaviourinfluences or determines socialstructure (Whorfian hypothesis)
Desperate Definitions
:
Sociolinguistics is an attempt to
find correlations between linguistic structure and social
structure
Sociolinguists
“whatever it is, is about askingimportant questions concerningthe relationship of language to
society” (Wardhaugh 11)