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english language and society

This class was created by Brainscape user Gabriela Teixeira. Visit their profile to learn more about the creator.

By: Gabriela Teixeira
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Decks in this class (9)

Cours 1 : Introduction
Scientific study of a language,
Sociolinguistics,
Prescriptive attitude
7  cards
Cours 2 : Language variation
Dialect continuum,
Abstand languages,
Ausbau languages
10  cards
Cours 3 : Stylistic variation
Variation in the individual,
Labov s study on nyc variants,
Link between stylistic variation ...
5  cards
Cours 4 : Language attitude
Language attitude,
Attitudes towards language in com...,
Examples of language attitudes
5  cards
Cours 5 : Politeness
Systematic individual variation i...,
Politeness,
Goffman and face work
10  cards
Cours 6 : Social class
Social class,
Social mobility,
Speaker s network
12  cards
Cours 7 : Ethnicity
Governmental definition of ethnicity,
Practical definition of ethnicity,
Characteristics of ethnicity and ...
15  cards
Cours 8 : Networks and speech communities
Micro groups and macro groups,
Social networks,
Dense and loose networks
9  cards
Cours 9 : Gender
Do we talk about gender or sex in...,
Gender in language,
Preferential features in gender
10  cards

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