Regional & Social Variation Flashcards
Regional Variations
Isolation creates the environment for different linguistic varieties to develop (river, island, mountain rand corresponds with regional dialect boundaries)
Regiolect
Regional dialect
Sociolect
Dialect associated with Social Class
What does separation (isolation) do?
Promotes growth of separate linguistic varieties, but this separation isn’t limited to regions
What are some other factors that can create dialects?
Social class, gender, age, ethnicity
Who conducted the fourth floor experiment?
William Labov
William Labov
Fourth floor experiment, proved New Yorkers stereotypically drop their R’s, this can be seen through social class and situation
Accent vs dialect
A - differences in pronunciation, D - features of grammar, vocab, pronunciation; both have regional and social aspects
NORMS
Non-mobile older rural males; used for dialect research because they were less likely to have influence from the outside region or from standard dialects
Isogloss
Imaginary boundary between linguistic features; word, phonological/phonetic aspect feature, or grammar issues
Dialect boundary
When enough isoglosses line up together
Dialect vs language
Language has politics behind it
Linguistic variety
Term used to describe a certain dialect of a language to avoid political debate
Diglossia
An unusual situation that have two varieties of the same language, “high” and “low” varieties
“High” variety
Used in certain formal situations, like school, political events, or on the news
