LANGUAGE AND REGION
RP speakers are perceived, as soon as they start speaking, as haughty and unfriendly by non-RP speakers unless they are able to demonstrate the contrary.
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Cheshire
LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CLASS
Used long-term participant observation to gain data about the relationship between use of grammatical variables and adherence to peer group culture by boys and girls in Reading. Looked at non-standard grammar use like the use of
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Tannen
LANGUAGE AND GENDER
Male and female language follows six contrasts: status vs support, independence vs intimacy, advice vs understanding, information vs feelings, orders vs proposals, and conflict vs compromise.
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Kim & Elder
LANGUAGE AND REGION
Communication difficulties between Korean and American colleagues - they were abbreviating unhelpfully, using idiomatic expressions, elaborating, etc.
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Halliday
7 functions of a child's language: instrumental, regulatory, interactional, personal, representational, heuristic, and imaginative.
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Skinner
CHILD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Children learn to speak by imitating language structures they hear. Parents reinforce and correct utterances, forming the basis of language.
if an action has a positive outcome, they are more likely to repeat it. If an action ha
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Chomsky
CHILD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Language Acquisition Device - brain has a device that allows children to work out what's linguistically accepted. Critical Period - In early stages of life children have rapid language acquisition.
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Bruner
CHILD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Language Acquisition Support System - Interaction helps to support a child's language acquisition
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Zimmerman & West
CHILD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
The subjects of the recording were white, middle class and under 35. They report that in 11 conversations between men and women, men used 46 interruptions, but women only two. Men interrupt more often, then they are dominating o
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Labov MV
LANGUAGE AND REGION
Martha's vineyard- Noted that locals had a tendency to pronounce diphthongs (as in coin, loud, and though).
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Eckert
LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL GROUP
Believed that there are different ways of defining age:
- chronological age
- biological age (physical maturity)
- social age (linked to life events)
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Giles accomodation
LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL GROUP
Argues that "when people interact they adjust their speech, their vocal patterns and gestures to accommodate others". Convergence - changing language towards another individual. Divergence - changing language to move away from an
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Labov NYC
LANGUAGE AND REGION
Tested three different department stores aimed at different classes. Middle class strove for the most prestigious form. ( rhotic "car")
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LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CLASS
Used long-term participant observation to gain data about the relationship between use of grammatical variables and adherence to peer group culture by boys and girls in Reading. Looked at non-standard grammar use like the use of
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Cheshire
Card 3
Front
LANGUAGE AND GENDER
Male and female language follows six contrasts: status vs support, independence vs intimacy, advice vs understanding, information vs feelings, orders vs proposals, and conflict vs compromise.
Back
Card 4
Front
LANGUAGE AND REGION
Communication difficulties between Korean and American colleagues - they were abbreviating unhelpfully, using idiomatic expressions, elaborating, etc.
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Card 5
Front
7 functions of a child's language: instrumental, regulatory, interactional, personal, representational, heuristic, and imaginative.
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