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vernacular
casual, informal register of speech
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style shifting
move along speech registers
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code switching
whether or not second language in home
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Standard American English (SAE)
language of textbook and newscasters
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no child learns dialects
free from speech
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African American English 2
- Black English, Ebonics, AAE vernacular
- has systematic differeneces in all the components of laguage
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Latino English
- Hispanic population is largest ethnic population in the US
- variety of groups: Puerto Rican, Mexican, Central American
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Asian English 2
- many different types
- difficult to generalize
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What must we know about COM break downs?
- when one occurs
- work together to fix it
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different cultures have...
different rules of COM (pragmatics)
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language dialects 2
- language rule system that varies in some way from the standard
- roots in history, politics, religion, culture, linguistic forces
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language dialects can vary in 6
- syntax
- semantics
- morphology
- pragmatics
- phonology
- differ more in the frequency of use of aspects
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views on dialects 3
- should be viewed within own social context: they work for those using them
- some as deficit (inferior)
- dialects themselves have no intrinsic value; value is listener's bias
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factors related to dialect usage
- geography
- SES
- race / ethnicity
- peer group influences
- situation / context
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speech registers
different styles of speaking
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