SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Notes and as a summary for the course Sociolinguistics.

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

First, Second, Third Wave studies

Dialectological studies, isoglosses, variations, linguistic variables etc.

lingua franca, pidgin, creoles

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.

Sex and gender, heteronormativity, dominance approach, sexism, feminist linguistics, the difference approach etc.

multilingualism, ethnolinguistic vitality, linguistic landscapes, style-shifting and crossing, speech accomodation

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