Academic Statement of Purpose The need for critical discourse analysis is crucial now more than ever because of the sheer mass of information our society encounters on a daily basis. I hope to demystify some of these messages through the use of critical discourse analysis in both my future research and my career. My work in discourse analysis seeks to identify those who are powerful‚ the construct of power they rely on‚ the social indexing employed‚ and the implications of their words for those
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Paper downloaded from www.wcaanet.org/events/webinar as part of the EASA / ABA / AAA / CASCA webinar 2013 Political Economies of Language: Power‚ Epistemology and the Representation of Research by Alexandra Jaffe Both sets of questions raised in this virtual seminar make the important point that the political economy involved in how we conduct‚ and then represent our ethnographic practice has both linguistic and epistemological dimensions. With this in mind‚ I take a critical look at linguistic
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Research Proposal Research area: This study intends to fall in the area of sociolinguistics. Research topic: This research will explore the impact of social media (facebook) on academic writing. Problem statement: How is the informal language used on (facebook) is affecting the formal language writing skills of the students? Research questions: i. The questions to be addressed in this research project are interested in the extent to which Facebook use has an impact on learners’ academic development
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meaning * Used for daily interpersonal exchanges BICS Context Embedded Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills Canale & Swain Grammatical Competence * Lexical items * Morphology * Syntax * Semantics * Phonology Sociolinguistic Competence Strategic Competence * Sociocultural rules * Understanding social context 4 Verbal/nonverbal strategies to compensate for breakdowns due to performance variables or insufficient competence * Ability of connecting sentences
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The Scope of Sociolinguistics Definition: Sociolinguistics is the study of the relationship between language and society. Sociolinguistics is a derivational word. Two words that form it are sociology and linguistics. Sociology refers to a science of society (which is a grouping of individuals‚ which is characterized by common interests and may have distinctive culture and institutions)‚ and linguistics refers to a science of language (which is a means of communicating information‚ and a crucial
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The first of the four Approaches I will discuss is Attention to Speech. Taglimonte (2006: p.8) suggests that it is “the style from which every other style must be calibrated”. William Labov devised a sociolinguistic interview designed to produce a range of types of speech. His main interest was to obtain and identify data that represented people’s casual speech‚ rather than speech that was altered due to the presence of an observer. Most of the interview was conversational and produced two types
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References: Ervin-Tripp‚ S. 2001. “Variety‚ style-shifting‚ and ideology.” In P. Eckert & J. Rickford (eds.) Style and sociolinguistic variation (p.44-56.) New York: Cambridge University Press. Patrick‚ P.L. 2009. Dept of Language and Linguistics‚ University of Essex “Notes on the sociolinguistics of style (-shifting)” http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lg/lg232/stylenotes.htmlPatrick‚ Peter L. 1997. "Style and register in Jamaican Patwa." In Edgar W. Schneider‚
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Language Planning in School-based Language Revival Programs Philippa Dundon1 Senior Curriculum Officer‚ Aboriginal Languages‚ Board of Studies NSW Introduction This paper examines the role of language planning within school-based language revival programs‚ particularly focusing on Indigenous2 language revival programs within Australia. It provides an overview of language planning concepts and definitions‚ and examines language planning as it relates to language revival programs in general‚ and
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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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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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