Why study it?
A system
Descriptive or prescriptive?
Variation
Miscellany
100
Because it's crucial to understanding society and other people.
Why study language?
100
The rules that govern any language system.
What are the "building codes" of language?
100
Discovering and recording the building codes that govern a language system.
What is prescriptivism?
100
Substituting a known phoneme for one that is similar but different for the speaker to pronounce.
What is an accent?
200
Only then can you understand power and persuasion.
What are some of the reasons for studying language?
200
Having knowledge of the grammar of a language.
What is competence?
200
Differences in semantics, phonology, or syntax used by various groups of speakers of a language.
What is dialect?
200
Some examples are to insult, persuade, command, compliment, encourage, or promise.
What are some of the functions of language?
300
It is the study of people as individuals and as members of groups and societies.
What is sociolinguistics?
300
Someone who thinks that if a language rule is broken, that somehow the language is being damaged.
What is a prescriptivist?
300
What are prestige dialects?
What versions of a language that are considered to be the most "proper" or "correct"?
400
Being able to effectively use language.
What is performance?
400
Educated members of the higher social echelons of a society.
Who dictates and maintains the rules of language use in a society?
400
Used to describe language but not to dictate use.
What are dictionaries?
400
The way that language is used to describe and address people.
What is interpellation?
500
A way of describing a set of beliefs and behaviors that are thought to be "natural" and "normal."
What is an ideology?
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