Sociolinguistics
Describe the class pattern
Complete the following formulation of the class pattern and fill in the blanks with either ‘higher’ or ‘lower’.
A formulation of the class pattern: (:vips 12299:)
General Linguistics
Selected Subfields
- History of English
- Syntactic Theory
- Cognitive Approaches
- Language and Media
- Sociolinguistics
- Focus and content
- Exercises
- Define Sociolinguistics
- Define traditional and modern dialectology
- Define traditional and modern dialectology (II)
- The characteristics of British English and American English
- Define lexical differences between British English and American English (I): cars and their components
- Define lexical differences between British English and American English (II): mixed items
- Define central terms
- Define urban dialectology
- Define the sociolinguistic variable
- Describe the class pattern
- Describe the stylistic pattern
- The class pattern: describe social stratification
- The class pattern: describe social stratification (II)
- The class pattern: describe social and stylistic stratification
- The class pattern: describe social and stylistic stratification (II)
- The class pattern: describe social and stylistic stratification (III)
- The gender pattern: describe the gender pattern
- The age pattern: define the age pattern
- The linguistic marketplace: explain linguistic variation
- Define the social network concept
- Sociolinguistic patterns and language change: define central terms
- Define 'register'
- Research exercise: define jargon expressions
- Research exercise: define slang expressions
- Determine the use of H and L
- Define domains and varieties/codes
- Name reasons for code switching
- Research exercise: countries and their official languages
- Define the characteristics of pidgins
- Define the characteristics of creoles
- Pidgins and creoles: define central terms
- Define the developmental stages of a pidgin
- Semantic Transparency
- Define the characteristics of AAVE
- Identify linguistic features of AAVE (I)
- Identify linguistic features of AAVE (II)
- Determine the use of 'be' in AAVE (I)
- Determine the use of 'be' in AAVE (II)
- Language and gender: name central terms
- Tools and Extras
- Theories and Methods in Linguistics