Socio-Linguistics final exam
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- Divergence
- accommodation away from your interlocutor to increase social distance.
- synchronic variation
- is linguistic change in progress.
- convergence
- accommodation towards the speech of ones interlocutor
- community of practice
- mutual engagement,a jointly negotiated enterprise, and a shared repertoire
- change from below
- changes in the spech community below the level of conscious awareness
- age-grading
- all speakers of a community use more tokens of one variant at a certain age and more tokens of another variant at another age.
- address terms
- terms you use to address people tittles,kinship terms ect
- index score
- a means by which scalar variables can be converted into quantifable data
- isogloss
- is the geographical boundary or delineation of a certain linguistic feature
- back channel
- speaking at the same time as some one else but only in the background
- semantic bleaching
- Word develops grammatical function; At the same time loses semantic meaning
- Dense and Loose Networks
- characterised by everyone in the goup knowing eachother
- marker
- a variable that speakers are less aware of than a stereotype but which shows consistant style effects
- diglossia
- two closely related languages are used in a speech community.H and L
- accent
- where speakers differ at the level of pronounciation or phonetics only
- linguistic competence
- structual competence
- code switching
- the alteration between varieties,or codes across sentences or clause boundaries
- framing
- framing something to mean something example terrorists and freedom fighter/prolife and prochoice
- change from above
- changes taking place in a speech community above the level individuals' conscious awareness.
- indicator
- linguisic variable that shows now style variation
- symbolic capital
- can be referred to as the resources available to an individual on the basis of honor, prestige or recognition, and functions as an authoritative embodiment of cultural value
- accomodation
- speakers attune or adapt thier linguistic behavior in light of thier interlocutors.