Sociolinguistics

2. Possible Causes for Lexical Change If one were to look at the epic Beowulf, one of the most important works written in Old English, one would notice that a significant amount of the words are barely corrigible to the modern English speaker. As such, it can be inferred that most of the Old English lexicon has been lost. One possible reason for this is the factor of history. One major influence toward the development of the English language is Latin. According to the book Words, Meaning and…

She used appropriate behavior to show her attitude to the receiver. Similarly, another sociolinguistic behavior which is Sophia uses courteous sentence like “would you mind passing the sheet to me” when the teacher hand out the paper assignment to the students. “Sociolinguistics is concerned with language in social and cultural context, especially how people with different social identities (e.g. gender, age, race, ethnicity, class)…

When studying ancient history or the culture of Africa I would look at it from an African perspective and not from an outside colonial view. I feel that too much of Africa’s history is told by non-Africans. Wrigley opposes the hypothesis by saying it is “perhaps the most notorious expression of the racialist interpretation which dominated studies of the African past d of the twentieth century” (Wrigley 189). Many interpretations of African societies from dated European views are very false.…

comprehensive analysis of both the textual and structural level of media discourse and analysis at the production and comprehension level. Wodak (2001, as cited in Shyholislami) and her colleagues have worked on discourse sociolinguistics. They believed that in discourse sociolinguistics, text and context have equal importance and the text is studied in context. Fairclough (2001, as cited in Shyholislami) in his approach to language and discourse which is called critical language…

Indexicality of language and style-shifting in Kebab Norwegian “Kebab Norwegian” is traced to “Kebab Svenska” (Kebab Swedish, now “Rinkebysvenska”) and was imported to Norway in the mid-1990s. Kebab Norwegian was rapidly adopted by the media and by word of mouth, and generally refers to the vernacular, the most relaxed and least conscious way of speaking, Norwegian amongst young people with and without immigrant background in the multilingual urban spaces of Oslo. The term was first coined in…

Handbook (2011). Focusing the the engaged art throughout the community and individuals. Pablo Helguera is a New York artist working with sculpture, photography, drawing , installation and performance. Pablo’s work focus on topics ranging from sociolinguistics, ethnography, museums display strategies, musical performances and written fiction. One of his famous works was on…

pronunciation is, in fact, a minority accent. Consequently, conservative RP, as its less used and more archaic variety, has even fewer speakers. The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to outline the concept of a social network as a part of modern sociolinguistics and second, to investigate how native and non-native speakers perceive conservative RP and linguistic affects connected to it. This paper will try to prove that there is a huge difference in native and non-native…

As indicated by the book "Window on Humanity" wild primates utilize call frameworks to impart. Natural jolts trigger calls, which can't be joined when different boosts are available. Differentiate amongst dialect and call frameworks incorporate relocation, profitability, and social transmission. After some time, our genealogical call frameworks became excessively perplexing for hereditary transmissions, and hominine correspondence started to depend on learning. People still utilize nonverbal…

Since this project is based on a qualitative approach, this research will be carried out by applying two questionnaires (1 per group) which will be answered by 5 young participants and 5 adult participants which is part of a qualitative research method. This approach will be implemented in order to collect information due to it cannot be quantified but need to be analyzed, compared and evaluated in order to come up with conclusions. The questionnaires consists on seven questions about the…

The Republic of South Africa, according to its first democratic constitution, officially speaks 11 languages, of which there are two West-Germanic languages (Afrikaans and English), and nine Bantu languages (isiNdebele, Sesotho, Sepedi, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, isiXhosa and isiZulu). Due to such diversity, South Africa represents a highly valuable source of information for studying the phenomenon of multilingualism. The essay will first focus on South Africa’s peculiar historical…