Prestige (sociolinguistics) From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Sociolinguistics Key concepts Code-switching Diglossia Language change Language ideology Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Areas of study Accent Dialect Discourse analysis Language varieties Linguistic description Pragmatics Variation People Sociolinguists Related fields Applied linguistics Historical linguistics Linguistic anthropology Sociocultural linguistics Sociology of language Category Category
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Dating in Hong Kong (i) Abstract Studying the language characteristics in different context is an essential field of sociolinguistics. Dating is a special context in which cross-gendered interactions involve. Affective language would be frequently used in this context. Also‚ the relationship between language and gender has become an important topic in sociolinguistics in the recent years. However‚ there is limited research investigating the affective language used in dating. In this research
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studies have indicated that phonetic variation in speech may activate social stereotypes (Purnell‚ Idsardi & Baugh‚ 1999)‚ research on the mechanisms of this process has been scant. The term “stereotype” was introduced into the variations of sociolinguistic literature in Labov’s (1973) taxonomy of language forms charged with broad social meaning‚ reprised in Labov (2001). The first element in this classification‚ “indicators”‚ are variables whose use is restricted to certain social groups‚ but whose
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Introducing Sociolinguistics ‘Here is a welcome introduction to sociolinguistics by a leading researcher in the field. Users will be inspired by the breadth and sweep of Meyerhoff’s treatment.’ William Labov‚ University of Pennsylvania‚ USA ‘Miriam Meyerhoff’s entertaining volume revels in the diversity that is the cornerstone of sociolinguistics – she takes us to every continent to provide contemporary‚ refreshing and engaging examples of the key concepts of the discipline‚ and does so in a
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Baduy Dalam community who lives in Banten‚ Indonesia. This research is conducted in order to know the deep information about the greeting language which is used by them. Method which is applied in this study is descriptive qualitative by using sociolinguistics approach. Data got from the field by interviewing some people in Baduy Dalam. The results showed that (1) the usual greeting used as ‘salam’ for Baduy Dalam to show familiarity and politeness among other such as‚ Tabe’ pun ka girang? which means
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so‚ in fact‚ that taking a linguistic approach – and most usefully a sociolinguistic one – to studying the dialogue of Blanche and Stanley could provide us with revealing insights into the subtlety and depth of Williams’ writing. Sociolinguistics deals with the ways in which society helps to shape language. Work in this area has spawned a number of fascinating concepts and terms. There is not space here to look at sociolinguistics in depth‚ but the following could well help us in studying the relationship
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Colonialism Fanon‚ like others meets them at the crossroads at the absolute horror of life in Algeria. Nothing could heal the experience they endured with a world of bombing and retaliations using torture. Violence was also predominate with hatred and lies. The book thus conveys a singular message that sums up that of the Algerian Struggle in which the only possible ending is liberation. Powerfully stated “The old Algeria is dead ” and that “the blood that has flowed onto national soil has produced a new humanity
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second language on different specific cognitive processes in various learning tasks‚ and (b) particular cognitive resources of the bilingual learner that can facilitate learning. Complementing these psycholinguistic studies‚ investigations that use sociolinguistic approaches reveal a range of important personal and social processes and factors that suggest a sense of agency on the part of the bilingual learner as the learner engages learning tasks amidst varying requirements of the social environments of
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impoverished immigrants from the Mediterranean basin were flowing into Algeria; taking the people’s land and resources‚ and further weakening the country. Not only were the immigrants and the constant war weakening the country but the French in North Africa were also working on converting people to christianity and while although they only got mostly orphans and social outcasts it still created weakened the popular beliefs in Algeria. The page then continues to explain how once the French
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individual and politician he was against the French colonization and wanted and independent Algeria (Playwright). “The Guest” story is an example of his struggle against colonization and war. As he describes the situation in the story‚ “Now shiploads of wheat were arriving from France and the worst was over. But it would be hard to forget that poverty”. It means that Camus does not like the dependency of Algeria‚ and he believes that people will remember the bad situation caused by French. Camus has
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