Variations, and Changes, and Language, Oh my!
The phonological part of a dialect
What is an accent?
adapting speech to an audience
What is audience design?
someone who speaks one language
What is monolingual?
Word meaning "everyday speech"?
What is vernacular?
The focus of the Exodus 20:13 study was that God is concerned about the _____ of a crime.
What is victim?
What are the Printing Press, Educational Availability, and Industrialization?
using speech of one register when belonging to another.
What is crossing?
someone who speaks multiple languages
What is multilingual?
a variety of AAVE used in South Carolina and Georgia
What is Gullah?
adopting speech not your own
What is stylization?
respect gained by use of the language considered to be below standard; use of non-standard language to identify with or set oneself apart from a group
What is covert prestige?
a feeling of belonging or wanting to belong
The term for living in proximity to another language being spoken.
What is language contact?
the hypothesis that AAVE was formed as a combination of West African pidgins and American English, decreolized through time
What is creole?
An artificial language mentioned in class.
DAILY DOUBLE: List all of them.
What are Esperanto, Klingon, and Elvish?
Specialized terms referring to a person's activities or occupation.
What is jargon?
a specialized variety of terms referring to a person’s activities or occupation.
What is jargon?
A language used to facilitate communication between speakers of different languages.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is a Language of Wider Communication? (LWC)
DAILY DOUBLE: List the other two names for an LWC
the hypothesis that AAVE was formed from an older English dialect (likely East Anglia)
What is dialectologist?
A way that רָצַח is translated into English.
What is slayer, murder, kill, etc.
A variation of language determined by the subject or context.
What is register?
a variation of a language, similar to a dialect but determined by the subject rather than geographical or social issues
What is a register?
Bonus: Give a register.
a move from a native language to an emigrant language
What is language shift?
the hypothesis that AAVE was formed alongside SAE, forming and growing in different directions
What is divergence?
A form of bilingualism in which two varieties of a language are kept separate in
functional distribution
What is diglossia?