In sociolinguistics, prestige is the level of regard normally accorded a specific language or dialect within a speech community, relative to other languages...
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In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking...
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American ships Prestige (horse) Prestige (sociolinguistics), esteem in which languages or dialects are held Prestige Elite, typeface Prestige format, square-bound...
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language on society. Sociolinguistics overlaps considerably with pragmatics and is closely related to linguistic anthropology. Sociolinguistics' historical interrelation...
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In sociolinguistics, covert prestige is a type of scenario in which nonstandard languages or dialects are regarded to be of high linguistic prestige by...
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In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual. An accent may be...
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Specifically, the "paradox" arises from sociolinguistic data showing that women are more likely to use prestige forms and avoid stigmatized variants than...
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language spelling reform Mid-Atlantic accent Linguistic prescription Prestige (sociolinguistics) U and non-U English Wells (2008), p. xix, paragraph 2.1. "Bias...
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Partition of India, this variety has also become the prestige accent in Pakistan. Prestige (sociolinguistics) Dialect islamonline.net Archived 2011-02-20 at...
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Audience design Code-switching Indexicality Register (sociolinguistics) Sociolinguistics Sociolinguistic interview Style (manner of address) Stylistics Variation...
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Variety (linguistics) (redirect from Variety (sociolinguistics))
In sociolinguistics, a variety, also known as a lect or an isolect, is a specific form of a language or language cluster. This may include languages, dialects...
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Aureation Calque Classical compound Franglais Plain language Prestige (sociolinguistics) Uncleftish Beholding Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique, 1553:...
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Sociolect (category Sociolinguistics)
In sociolinguistics, a sociolect is a form of language (non-standard dialect, restricted register) or a set of lexical items used by a socioeconomic class...
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respectively. Great Vowel Shift Historical linguistics Philology Prestige (sociolinguistics) Trask, Robert Lawrence (2000). The Dictionary of Historical and...
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Variation (linguistics) (redirect from Variationist sociolinguistics)
change," led to the foundation of sociolinguistics as a subfield of linguistics. Although contemporary sociolinguistics includes other topics, language...
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Urdu and English in its movies. Sanskrit revival Sanskritism Prestige (sociolinguistics) Linguistic purism Tanittamil Iyakkam Ramaswamy, Sumathi (1999)...
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Diglossia (category Sociolinguistics)
language conflict Pluricentric language Polyglossia Register (sociolinguistics) Sociolinguistics Standard language Linguistic insecurity Kachru, Braj B.; Kachru...
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There, he developed a new way of looking at sociolinguistics with Dell Hymes, also a scholar of sociolinguistics. Their contribution was a new method called...
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dialect card and Welsh Not in Wales. Codification Language planning Prestige (sociolinguistics) Usage Symbole, a similar punishment for Breton-speaking students...
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In the field of sociolinguistics, social network describes the structure of a particular speech community. Social networks are composed of a "web of ties"...
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Dialect (section Sociolinguistic definitions)
Dialectometry Ethnolect Eye dialect Idiolect Isogloss Koiné language Register (sociolinguistics) Literary language Nation language Regional language Sprachbund Oxford...
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either stability or linguistic change. Real-time sociolinguistics contrasts with apparent-time sociolinguistics, which surveys different generations of a population...
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Language planning (category Sociolinguistics)
In sociolinguistics, language planning (also known as language engineering) is a deliberate effort to influence the function, structure or acquisition...
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Patois (category Sociolinguistics)
cities or as used in literature and formal settings (the "acrolect"). Sociolinguistics is the discipline that studies the relationship between these language...
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Language ideology (category Sociolinguistics)
Linguistic purism Linguistic rights Metapragmatics Prestige (sociolinguistics) Raciolinguistics Sociolinguistics Standard language Perceptual dialectology Irvine...
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Catalan language (redirect from Catalan Sociolinguistics)
to the common analysis of Spanish and Portuguese rhotics. Catalan sociolinguistics studies the situation of Catalan in the world and the different varieties...
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Standard language (category Sociolinguistics)
varieties in a community as the one with the highest status or prestige. Often, it is the prestige variety of a whole country. In linguistics, the process of...
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Codification (linguistics) (category Sociolinguistics)
Performances" (PDF). In Díaz-Campos, Manuel (ed.). The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics. Blackwell Publishing. pp. 667–685. ISBN 9781405195003. Holmes 2001...
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Language change (category Sociolinguistics)
studied in several subfields of linguistics: historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and evolutionary linguistics. Traditional theories of historical linguistics...
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Koiné language (category Sociolinguistics)
creolization. Unlike pidginization and creolization, there is often no prestige dialect target involved in koineization. The normal influence between neighbouring...
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