Language and Culture

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Language and Culture

• Review for the third face-to-face lecture

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Register

• 1. Register LILTRegister
• 2. Formal/informal language LILTFormal/Informal
  language
• 3. Appropriateness LILTAppropriateness
• 4. Variety LILTVariety
• 5. Variation LILTVariation
• 6. Quiz Sociolinguistics

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Diglossia

• 1. High (H) and Low (L) Sociolinguistics
  Sociolinguistics
• 2.Defining criteria of diglossia Diglossia
• 3. Arabic diglossia PAR Arabic Diglossia

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Code switching

• 1. Definition
• code-switching - changing from one language to
  another
• Sometimes I start a sentence in English, y luego
  termino en espanol.
• situational switching - a change in topic,
  person, or place could lead to a switch from one
  variety to the other
• metaphorical switching - a switch from Ranamål to
  Bokmål in a public setting could have the effect
  of signalling solidarity between the
  interlocutors. Code-mixing
• What is code-mixing comparing CS and CM

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Code-switching

• Code-switching - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• 2. Text Code Switching Example
• 3. Reference wetsite Bilingual conversations
  (kottke.org)

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Code-mixing

• code-mixing - speaking in one language, but using
  pieces from another
• Example (English and Spanish)
• ShopperDónde está el thin-sliced bread?
• Clerk Está en aisle three, sobre el second
  shelf, en el wrapper rojo.

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Borrowing

• 1. Borrowed words in English KryssTal Borrowed
  Words in English test loan
• Chinese Loan Words in the English Language
• 2. Japanese borrowed words Loan words in
  Japanese LOAN-WORDS
• English loan words in Chinese English Loan Words
  in the Chinese Language

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Summary Features of Code Switching, Code Mixing
and Borrowing.

•  Table Table.doc

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Pidgin and Creole

• What is Pidgin? Pidgin
• What is Creole? Creole -

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Assignment 3

• 1. Answer the question in this website in your
  own words. Sociolinguistics
• 2. Observe your and other peoples speech
  behavior over the period of time of three days,
  and then make a record to find out if
  code-switching, code-mixing and load words appear
  in your and their conversation. Specify the
  setting (where it happens), the relationship of
  the interlocutors (with whom you are talking to),
  and the purpose (why you speak)of communication.