Sociolinguistics

Languages. German, French, English, Italian, Mandarin or even Russian. They are thousands of languages still spoken today. By all means, language is a powerful and vital tool for every single person’s life. In fact, it is something that has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years. It is something so unique and complex, yet so beautiful in the same time. Taking that into account, linguistics has a very difficult, yet significant job, in today’s society. Linguistics. What is it exactly?…

, talks about the sociolinguistic competence when it comes to overall communicative competence. Humans are capable of creating infinite creative ways of expressing their thoughts. Therefore to master the ability to clearly follow what a speaker may attempt to convey, one has to go beyond their bookish knowledge of what the meaning of an utterance may entail. This involves sociolinguistic competence, and this form of competence, in contrary to grammatical…

binary is a primary cause in the development of sexist, exclusive language and results in the erasure of gender minorities as well as the encouragement of gender norm in regards to word-gender association. A shift in approaches to gender and sociolinguistics has occurred over the past few decades as feminist theories regarding social constructs about gender have evolved and changed with time. With more regard to gender inclusiveness and respect for transgender and genderqueer identities,…

is the use of code-switching (Velásquez, 2010). Over the last twenty-five years the study of code-switching has become a flourishing research field in second language acquisition. It has received attention from such diverse fields as sociolinguistics, anthropology, language teaching, formal linguistics, and psycholinguistics. (Jalal, 2010) There are lots of definitions about code-switching. Hymes (1991 p.110) proposes that code –switching basically is “the alternate use of two or more…

Recently in modern cinema, the dialogue of movies is ripe with text waiting to be analyzed through a linguistic lens. This can be looked at through the intonation of one’s voice, the “sharpness” of the voice, accent, and the lexical markers that they use. All of these metrics can be used to learn a significant amount of information about the character. The fine balance between using horrendous stereotypes and leaving too much up for interpretation is one often walked too far on either side in…

My decision to be a Speech-Language Hearing sciences major came as a result from my own experiences living with a hearing loss. As I began high school, I unexpectedly began losing my hearing due to an inner ear disease. I struggled in my schooling for some time before I started the aural rehabilitation that has brought me to where I am today. Through this treatment, I interacted with a variety of audiologists who helped find assistive technologies and communication strategies that were best…

will not do as an exclusive modifier of communities that are often heavily engaged in writing, but rather in terms of what that literary activity implies. A second reason for separating the two concepts derives from the need to s distinguish a sociolinguistic grouping from a sociorhetorical…

secondary research on topics of ethnic enclaves, ESL, language disparities / discrimination, daily rounds, and comparative sociolinguistics. This research will lend a practical understanding of the ‘day-to-day’ (“daily round”) in an ESL speaker’s life. Furthermore, it will aid in my formulation…

validate eligibility. Issues associated with referral, assessment, and eligibility determinations for these students is discussed, and recommendations for improving practice are offered, with an emphasis on the importance of linking data, to include sociolinguistic interviewing, from multiple sources when deciding whether EL students qualify for special…

2.1. InterlanguagePragmatics and Pragmatic Competence 2.1.1. Definition of pragmatics and interlanguage pragmatics In his work, Yule (1997) explains that pragmatics is “the study of the relationships between linguistic forms and the users of those forms”. He details that studying pragmatics allows learners to “talk about people’s intended meanings, their assumptions, their purposes or goals, and the kind of actions that they are performing when they speak”. In other words, it’s about how people…