Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Speech Communities, Speech Identities

4 comments:

  1. I guess this is where we comment for #15? The quote from the kid was really neat. “Languages are created by the poor, who go on renewing them forever. The rich crystalize them in order to put on the spot anybody who speaks in a different way. Or in order to make them fail exams.” He has a point.

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  2. this is also for Macaulay... there wasn't a post for it from what I could see.
    I knew that there were words that British people used that Americans didn’t use, and vice versa. I thought it was interesting that the question at hand was, just because we are separated by an ocean, and we use words the other doesn’t use (as well as say most words differently) does that mean that they are different dialects? My first instinct would have been yes, but Macaualay seems to think both yes and no.

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  3. Of course, public perception of what the standard dialect plays an important role. It was interesting to know that we often prescribe to this language ideology without even really thinking that we do. However, it can define our whole life because we are constantly prescribing to this language ideology that we find ourselves in

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  4. this is for Wolfram.
    Along with being dubbed as a weirdo, there are also instances where others would see you as rude, or arrogant if you were to use formal language. People don’t like to feel inferior. As more time goes on, the use of overly-formal language will continue to decrease, and I believe that someday it will disappear completely.

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