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Sociolinguistics Quiz 2

Quiz 2 - Vokabular

Quiz 2 - Vokabular

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This set of flashcards helps university-level English learners explore sociolinguistics, focusing on vocabulary related to communication dynamics, identity construction, and interaction strategies. Key terms include "face threatening act," "preferred response," and "turn-taking system," which are essential for understanding relational work and politeness in conversations. The platform supports backward learning, allowing users to reverse the learning direction from the target language to the source language. These vocabulary flashcards are particularly useful for students and researchers in linguistics, helping them grasp complex concepts and improve their analytical skills in sociolinguistic studies.
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Conversation analysis 

among other things, this method looks at the sequential organization of conversation and how participants manage the conversation using strategies like 'turn-taking'. Conversation analysis allows researchers to search large collections of recorded natural speech to discover patterns in the distribution of utterances.

Interaction

A relationship between two or more individuals. In sociolinguistics, it's usually a synonym for conversation

Conversation: Dialogue (interactive) between two or more people, where there is little or no formal turn assignment.

Turn-taking system

who has right to speak?

 

Turn construction component —> context dependent. This marks a transition relevant point.

Turn allocation (zuweisung)  component: other selection / self selection

politeness (lay)

relational work that is judged by participants in situ as appropriate and positively evaluated or marked according to the norms of a social practice

politeness (linguists)

linguistic strategies that moderate face-threatening acts as part of relational work or identity construction

Face

a mask, an image a person gives itself during a particular interaction. Face depends on the acceptance of others

face wants

the desire to protect one's face (positive as well as negative)

positive and negative face

positive: want of every member that his wants be desirable to at least some; also called the involvement aspect of face

 

negative: the want of every member that his actions be unimpeded (unbehindert) by others, also called the independence aspect of face.

Face threatening act

acts which challenge the face wants of an interlocutor; any act of communication is a risk to face.

self selection

a person starts speaking without being asked

other selection

a person starts speaking because it is expected (giving answer)

Overlap

when one speaker starts speaking when the other one is still speaking

 

preferred response

'normal', 'espected' response. 

dispreferred response

unexpected response. e.g. not response to greeting

Style

Intra-speaker variation opposed to speech community variation

Relational Work

relational work refers to the ways in which the construction of identity is achieved in interaction,

while identity refers to the “product” of these linguistic and non-linguistic processes.

Identity

the active negotiation of an individual’s relationship with larger social constructs, in so far as this negotiation is signaled through language and other semiotic means. —> in constant change (flux)

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