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Educational Sociolinguistics - Coggle Diagram
Educational Sociolinguistics
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The subfield of sociolinguistics dealing with relationships between language and education.
focuses on
the relationships between the two in classroom settings, informal education, community-centred instruction and media/distance learning
classroom language
is often very formalised
shows often clear power relations
disadvantages
for. ex. black community members are not supposed to speak in classroom, but question & answer frame is a convention
deficit hypothesis
A theory connected to Basil Bernstein, a British sociologist, in the 1960s that the language of the lower classes was deficient when compared with the language of the middle class
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restricted code
Associated with working class and other marginalised groups with few opportunities within society. Provides its speakers with limited linguistic options. Speakers who make use of a restricted code often leave much of their commentary without elaboration, if not entirely unsaid.
Elaborated code
Associated with the opportunities open to middle-class people. Speakers can use precise, highly creative and richly expressive linguistic descriptions with a wide range of syntactic and semantic alternatives.
William Leap
Sociolinguistics' response
Members of the association should "seek ways and means to better communicate the theories and principles of the filed to the general public on a continuing basis