she brought true and false q & essay q
the essay q was about the attempt of fisher
in respect to t&f , i don't remember the all statements but i'll tell what i remeber now
sociolinguistics: the interrelationship between language and society.
language is variable, is not used in the same manner by all people in all situations.
variety: a neutral term to refer to any form of language (languages & dialects)
speech community: Controversial concept: A community of people who share a linguistic variety as their own and share social norms.
shared linguistic norms , shared communicative competence and shared social norms. (can be a city, neighborhood, region, nation)
communicative (sociolinguistic) competence (imp.): Speaker’s underlying knowledge of rules of grammar and rules for their use in socially appropriate circumstances.
variation and language(essay)
the variable: an abstract representation of the source of variation, realised by two or more variants, e.g ‘think’ /q/ : [q], [f].
the variants are the actual realization of a variable > (variable) – [actual use] -
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