ENG510 Grand Quiz Preparation Set 2

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“Sociolinguistics” ENG510

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Grand Quiz 2020

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Dialectology is the identification and mapping of boundaries.

The nineteenth century was a particularly good time in the history of the study of regional variation in language.

Very large projects were initiated in Europe, some even continued in the 20th century.

Altas Linguistique de la France or ‘Alf’ was begun by Jules Gillieron.

Edmont was trained to use a consistent system for transcribing regional pronunciations.

A number of detailed atlas projects were undertaken across Europe at about the same time.

William Labov (1927) has been a prominent voice in American linguistics since the early 1960s.

He pioneered an approach to investigating the relationship between language and society.

He developed a field known as “variationist sociolinguistics”.

Mainstream theorists do not deny the existence of variation, rather they tend to downplay its relevance.

Most of his research examines English.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, his studies of the linguistic features of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) were also influential. The first social dialect study was conducted in the summer of 1961 on Martha’s Vineyard. In 1961, William Labov was one of summer visitors.

A student of Uriel Weinreich’s at Columbia University,

In Wells’s (1982) standard lexical sets are called the PRICE words.

In1966 Labov didn’t have access to Wells’s sets.

Labov conducted these sociolinguistic interviews in a number of different parts of the island.

He also sampled speakers from different walks of life.

Methodologically, the approach uses computer-based text corpora.

Hyland (1999) compares the features of the specific genres of meta-discourse.

A parallel corpus of 21 research articles was compiled for comparison.

Another study was of Kachru (2003) in which he used a small corpus to explore the uses of definite reference across four regional varieties of English.

Further varieties Indian, Nigerian, Singaporean, American

The corpus collected for the study consisted of a number of letters to the editor from several newspapers in India, Nigeria, Singapore and the USA.

The letters were published between March 5 and April 6, 2000.