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VARIATION AND LANGUAGE
As geographical barriers are one of the reasons for the development of different varieties, can age ’barriers’ act in the same way in society? (ÖF)
Could the usage of the same variety advance the process of making connections or friendships?
Can Martha’s Vineyard’s sociolinguistic phenomena be a common thing in other summer ‘playgrounds’ too?
Bonus: Why do we study sociolinguistics?
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Who names their child Edmond Edmont?
Would you be mad if you got sentenced to death because people misunderstood your linguistic fieldwork as writing in code? i would just laugh tbh
"He suggested that speakers prefer to maintain a safe level of differenciation between the phonemes in their language [...] so as to keep the distinctions between different words clear." (pp.13) What counts as safe difference? Who says so? (NE)
The standard use of language is held in high regards, and regional dialects can be viewed as inappropriate. On the other hand, we often think of dialects as an important part of our culture and "strive" to preserve them. How does that make any sense? (NE)
Isn't 69 people (= 1% of the population in Martha's Vineyard) way too small of a sample to deduce any results from? (NE)
Apart from social factors, what other factors determine the speakers’ use of one or the other of the “free” variations? (HA)
Are there variables that are common, but very slight and hard to hear, so they are ignored? (HA)
Do the intermediate forms of varieties tend to die out (change into one of the already existing standards) eventually or do they tend to become part of the language permanently? (HA)
What is the biggest difference between indicators and stereotypes? (DD)
What do sociolinguists have to be sensitive towards, in order to understand the differences of people's language use? (DD)
What is the difference between the interspeaker variation and the intraspeaker variation? (DD)
What is sociolinguistics? (KB)
“It was believed that such speakers used the most ‘authentic’ local variants. The dialectologist Harold Orton went so far as to say, ‘in [England] men speak vernacular more frequently, more consistently, and more genuinely than women’ (Orton et al. 1962: 15).”- Was this proved by research? (KB)
Which one is more influential, a linguistic factor or a non-linguistic factor? (KB)
How comprehensive should the methodology of a BAT on sociolinguistics be, when compared to a post-graduate thesis? Is there a distinct difference? Do I need to go beyond percentages, when analysing my quantitative data? (Hossi)
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We have been taught about free variations in linguistic lectures. If we follow Meyerhoff's proposal, do we have to completely disregard the concept of free variations? (Hossi)
“LePage and Tabouret-Keller (1985) argue that a lot of the differences in how speakers use language depends on what kind of person we perceive ourselves to be, or how we want to be perceived by others.” (pp. 15) Does our language use influence our identity or does our identity affect our language use? Which one has more influence on the other? (MK)
Can a standard variety of a language become the first and only variety that someone speaks? (MK)
How is it possible that the negative or positive attitude towards living in Martha's Vineyard influence the language use of the population? Do people's mood and attitude influence other aspects as well, such as the word choice? (MK)
What’s the actual difference between quantitative and qualitative approaches in sociolinguistic research? (VSZ)
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Does every indicator become a marker in the end? In other words, do people become aware of the fact that they favor a variant over another to differentiate their groups from another group? Or do some indicators remain subconscious forever?(VSZ)
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Why is it that some variables cause hysterical laughter while others are regarded as completely normal? Taha
Will a long exposure to different variables cause certain inconsistencies in one's way of talking? Taha
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On what standards do linguists determine which variation of a language is the standard form? Is there any criteria that makes one regional dialect "the best"? ME
In connection with Otero's research, did he show how prison language works? Sociolinguistically it can be very interesting how a mini-society communicates in order not to be understood by guards, but still understood by other inmates. It would be a great historical piece of the constantly changing criminal language. ME
How can we determine what is a language and what is a dialect? For example, Serbian and Croatian are mutually intelligible languages, with few differences and they are still considered to be separate by some linguists. But in Italy there is a vast linguistic variation and many times they cannot understand each other and still, there are not so many "official" languages, many are considered dialects. I suppose political and historical factors inlfuence these definitions. Can we overcome them? Can we base the facts solely on linguistic research? Should we? ME
How Labov's study proved that variations are usually not free?
What is stereotype in sociolinguistics?
Based on the Fens example, why regional dialects occured?
PA
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Labov showed that synchronic variation is often the root of diachronic change but it is always the root, isn't it? OK
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Are we going to get there once that we have already examined all languages from a sociolinguistic point of view? How far have we come in this so far? AAN
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Can the "slang" ( or terms) from digital culture that is built into our everyday speech be examined in a sociolinguistic way? AAN
Can the language and slangs of the gamer world be examined in the same way as a form of a language? Can it be as relevant as a dialect?AAN
On what interface it is worth looking for bilingual people who use two languages as their mother tongue that occur geographically far apart? AAN
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Why do many people emphasize that they know they have different dialect? How does it affect our attitude towards them? (KF)
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Is it possible that someone's dialect changes from his or her "original" regional one, because that person had moved into a different geographical region and has been living there for a long time? Or is the original dialect of this person mixes with the new one, creating a new variation? If these phenomena occure, is it also a subject of investigation for linguists?BV
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Do the generations have their own variants/dialects, slangs that are universal to one socially accepted generation? (Generation Z, Millenials, etc.) BL
The standard starts as a dialect or an area. Is it more beneficial to study it in that area or since it is the standard it can be studied everywhere? (BL)
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