Sociolinguistics
10 important questions on Sociolinguistics
Why is language part of our identity?
What is a dialect?
What is the difference between accent and dialect?
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Why is it difficult to distinguish between language and dialects?
A. If they have no standards are codified form
B. If the speakers of the given language do not have the state of their own.
C. If they are rarely or never used in writing (outside reporting speech)
D. If they let prestige with respect to some other, often standardised, variety.
What is linguistic profiling?
How do you create a social linguistic study and what do these look like?
B. Statement, question hypothesis
C. Participants
D. Collecting data
E. Analysing data
F. Concluding
Who is William Labov?
What did William Labov study in New York?
Explain covert versus overt prestige.
What is a pidgin?
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