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Chapter 2 - Part 1 علم اللغة الاجتماعي
Chapter 2 - Part 1 علم اللغة الاجتماعي
§ Social Stratification
§ Caste System
EXAMPLE:
Speaker A Speaker B
I done it yesterday. I did it yesterday.
He ain’t got it. He hasn’t got it.
It was her what said it. It was her that said it.
Social Class Dialects (Sociolects)
- relatively stable
- clearly named groups
- rigidly separated from each other, with hereditary membership
- little possibility of in and out movement
Caste System
§ That is the reason “caste dialects” are easier to study and describe
than social class dialect.
Social Classes
EXAMPLES:
Caste System in India:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1dbksj22Ds
§ Sociolinguistic investigation
of language variation
gained momentum in 1966
when the American linguist
William Labov published The
Social Stratification of English
in New York City.
Labov’s New York Study
§ Middle (Macy's)
§ Bottom (Kleins)
Labov’s New York Study
§ Social Stratification
§ Caste System