Sociolinguistics

Notes and as a summary for the course Sociolinguistics.

lingua franca, pidgin, creoles

Pragmatics, performative utterances, speech acts, locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary, felicity conditions, politeness etc

Examining everyday language, cultural norms, ethnographic approach, quantitative and qualitative approach, emic vs etic, ethnography of communication, s.p.e.a.k.i.n.g., norms, ethnomethodology etc.

First, Second, Third Wave studies

Dialectological studies, isoglosses, variations, linguistic variables etc.

Language and dialects, isoglosses, standardization, mutual intelligibility, accent, grammar, African American English