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SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
SOCIOLINGUISTICS The branch of knowledge which studies...of the major advances of modern sociolinguistics has been the introduction of quantitative...their dialects. Language planning Sociolinguistics can be concerned with observing...
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sociolinguistics
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
sociolinguistics the study of language as it affects and is affected by social relations. Sociolinguistics encompasses a broad range of concerns...Bibliography: See R. A. Hudson, Sociolinguistics (1980); P. Trudgill, Dialects...
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CODE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...only to someone who already knows its key or cipher , and because of this can encode or decode a message. 3. In SOCIOLINGUISTICS , a system of communication, spoken or written, such as a LANGUAGE , DIALECT , or VARIEM. See SEMIOTICS and next...
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...American , (American) Black English , black English , Black English Vernacular (BEV) , Ebonics . Terms in SOCIOLINGUISTICS for English as used by a majority of US citizens of Black African background, consisting of a range of socially...
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LANGUAGE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...way a person thinks. Language as a social phenomenon The social aspects of language are the concern primarily of SOCIOLINGUISTICS and anthropological linguistics . There have been various attempts to define the sociocultural notion of ‘...
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Teacher Learning Communities
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education
...been used by Stanley Fish and other theorists to refer to a network of people with similar meaning perspectives. In sociolinguistics, "speech community" has been used by Dell Hymes, John Gumperz, and other linguistic anthropo
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Conversational Analysis
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...convergence of Harold Garfinkel ’ s ethnomethodology, Erving Goffman ’ s interactionism, and sociolinguistics. Beginning with Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff, Gail Jefferson, and Anita Pomerantz in the 1960s, CA has become...
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Meaning
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...perspective derives from a variety of 1960s theoretical innovations, including symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, ethnomethodology, structuralism, social movement theory, pragmatics, and social...
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LECT
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
LECT. A term in SOCIOLINGUISTICS for a speech variety; it is used relatively little on its own but often occurs in combination, as in idiolect . See ACROLECT , BASILECT , DIALECT , ENGLISH , GRAMMATICALITY , IDIOLECT , MESOLECT , PRIVATE LANGUAGE , SOCIOLECT .
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VARIETY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
VARIETY. A term in SOCIOLINGUISTICS for a distinct form of a language. Varieties fall into two types: (1) User-related varieties, associated with particular...
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