Language in Sociolinguistics

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Sociolinguistics
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investigating the relationship between language and society with the goal of a better understanding of the structure of language and how languages function in communication.
Hudson - Sociolinguistics VS the sociology of language
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a. Sociolinguistics is the study of language in relation to society’, b. Sociology of language: the study of society in relation to language
Similarity: both require systematic study of language.
Sociology of language
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to discover how social structure can be better understood through the study of language, e.g. how certain linguistic features serve to characterize particular social arrangement
The relationship between language and society
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1. Social structure (age, varieties of languages), 2. Linguistic structure, 3. bi-directional influence (each other), 4. no relationship at all
Social factors
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1. the participants (wife- husband, boss-worker), 2. the social setting (home, work, school), 3. the aim or purpose of the interaction (informative, social) 4. the topic
Noam Chomsky
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•One of the most influential linguists of the 20th century. • Interested in grammaticality how humans use a finite set of structures and rules to produce an infinite number of grammatically correct sentences.
competence
Noam Chomsky
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the knowledge of language, linguistic focuses on it
performance
Noam Chomsky
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the use of language, pragmatic focuses on it
Can linguistics exist without pragmatics?
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No chyba nie, przynajmniej mi nic nie wiadomo. xd
Dell Hymes
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•Dissatisfied with Chomsky’s definition of ‘competence’: too narrow, too abstract, too sterile, and most importantly: too asocial
Hymes: competence is knowledge + knowing about use in context (communicative competence, Etnography of speaking = study of humans+ linguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure
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‘’the father of modern linguistics’’, • Language is organic, (not atomistic) and should be studied as such
Chomsky's definition of competence was taken from him

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