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Language & Society 2019

by Dr. Dave Britain

by Dr. Dave Britain


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Language English
Category English
Level University
Created / Updated 11.12.2019 / 05.01.2020
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sociolinguistics

Trudgill

generally defined: a broad discipline examining the relationship between language / communication structure and social structure

-> Term was coined in the 1960ies, it had been there before as a subdiscipline

Trudgill:

asks: How linguistic or social are the aims of the research?

demands: classification of social interaction

Macro-sociolinguistics

multilingualism, language planning, language death, language contact

Micro-sociolinguistics

interactional sociolinguistics, sociopragmatics, conversation analysis, ethnography of communication

 

In between Macro-sociolinguistics and Micro-sociolinguistics

language variation and change

Linguistic aims of the research (Trudgill)

language variation and change

Social aims of the research (Trudgill)

conversation analysis/ethnomethodology

Linguistic & Social aims of the research (Trudgill)

ethnography of speaking, discourse analysis, sociology of language

Language builds on social context

discourse analysis (constructing language building on what has been said before)