Social Groups Flashcards
The studies of social groups (30 cards)
Grice
“Quality, quantity, relevancy and manner maxims determines the success of conversation”
Romaine
“Communities are essentially social not linguistic”
Labov
“Communities are not defined by any marked agreement in language usage”
Holmes & Meyerhoff
“Membership in communities depend on social or behavioural characteristics”
Pinker
“Language is a window on everyone’s psychology”
Crystal
“Language is a transient aspect of our social identity”
Montgomery
“Communities have ritualised exchange of insults”
Connell
“Hegemonic masculinity amongst boys in a sport’s changing room”
Harness Goodwind & Berentzen
“Children constitute their social world through embodied language”
Koester
“Social interaction forms part of a framework”
Milroy
“There are open and closed social networks”
Granovetter
“Weak ties function as bridges for diffusion of change”
Swales
“Social groups sharing a common goal communicate internally with various modes”
Drew & Heritage
“There are pragmatic understandings inherent to work”
Ives
“People speak differently depending on their age”
Bernstein
“One code regardless whether restricted or elaborated is not better than the other”
Spears
“Slang has a shorter life span linguistically than idioms”
Foerster & Steadman
“Slang demonstrates laziness in thought
Whitman
“Indirection expresses itself illimitably through a poetic way of speaking”
Partridge
“Slang vocabulary is exceptionally vivid with novel metaphors”
Define “Idiolect”
An individually distinctive style of speaking
Define “Familect”
A style of language used within a family
Define “Sociolect”
The dialect of a particular social class
What’s the difference between active and passive speech in a speech community?
Active shapes the community, passive goes along with the community
