Sociolinguistics 輔仁大學英國語文學系 Fu Jen 社会语言学輔仁大學英國語文學系辅仁.pptVIP

Yun-Pi Yuan Sociolinguistics I. Inter-relationships between linguistic form and social function II. What should linguistics study? III. The difficulty of defining what language is IV. Social functions of speech V. Telephone conversation VI. Compliments VII Language gender I. Inter-relationships between linguistic form and social function (2) What are these sentences doing? When, and with whom, would each one be appropriate? From these examples, would you say that linguistic form and social function are unrelated? Should we study them separately? Interaction between psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics: Rhetorical expressiveness For social needs—affects form—affects other psychological pressures I . Inter-relationships between linguistic form and social function (3) Mandarin examples: 您， 你，敝人 府上，舍下 令郎，小犬 Sex Chairman, chair(person) Geographical origin Phonological variant Northern Taiwanese vs. southern Taiwanese Examples of Taiwanese spoken in I-lan II. What should linguistics study? (1) Grammar only: (the structure/form of language) to discover the rules of language x and thus universal rules Studies following this view often use idealized data—think up some sentences and then study them—”native speaker intuition” Problems: Speech is social behavior and has many social functions. Do these two factors have no influence on linguistic rules? What is language x? How do we define what one language is? what’s the language x? people who language spoken Speak language x by people x who are people x? II. What should linguistics study? (2) What is a native speaker? Social functions/factors, too: Questions like these (see above) led to development of a major counter view to the view of grammar only Speech is a form of social behavior; language must be related to and interact with society.