Mahira’s Reviews > Introducing Sociolinguistics > Status Update

Ch12 Looking back & ahead
"Stuff's complicated, deal with it."

Ch11 Language Contact
Dial. lvlin (ling urbanization - disruption of embeddin & indexin of groups; regional lvlin), C-induced change (pidgin (noncomplex, soc- & f-restricted × expanded pidgin), creole (complex, nonrestrd (vernac"n), has natives (creol"n)), lexifier&substrate&nonL-specific cognitive principles, socling constraints (wave×gravity model)

Ch9 Soc Networks & CoPs
Networks (change is more efficient on horizontal (age/class) axis than vertical, dense/loose Nws, (uni/multiplex) interpersonal ties, childhood Nws matter more), CoPs (crits: mutl engagemt, shared repertoire, shared goal), brokers

Ch8 Social class
(measure of status from soc-econ PoV), mobility (class×caste), measure (job, edu, house-value, neighborhood, aspirations etc.), fine/broad stratification, crossover effect (midclass jump in careful readin) × hypercorrection, change from above/below (conscious awareness, overt commentin × not), class&style (more careful reading = higher style (data-wise, more like higher class))

Ch7 Real & apparent time
Variation in time, RT studies - panel (same speakers)×trend (comparable sets of speakers); AT studies (diff. ages, crit. period), age-gradin (ling marketplace), change (grad×abrupt, commun/generatn/indiv), aging deficits

Ch6 Multiling & L choice
(implied×overt) L policies & plan (diglossia - smwt institutionalized; nat.×off. L, vitality - factors: status, demography, inst. supp.), code switchin (situational×addresee-based), code mixin, anti-L (jargon etc), speech lvls

Ch 6 Verbal politeness
B&L (positive (desireability) × negative (distancing) face (kind of like an interlocutory status quo), [inherently] threatenin acts, strategies; power, distance, imposition), socling competence

Ch 4 L attitudes
LA in LC (sem. shift, bleachin, derogation), determinism × relativism (arbit. signs × underlyin soc-cult assumptions) - Whorfian links tween how we talk, perceive & think bout, talk about things; possib asym. influence -, perceptual dialectology (non-linguist descrips), socling monitor, Social Identity Theory (pers. × group indents), accomod. theory (a/sym. attune, con/divergence) - sub&obj measures

Ch1
General intro & basic summary of what to expect

Ch2 Var & L
Variable× variant - constrained or "free" (not constrained by phon. context), dialectology (reg, soc), index score (p22), envelope of variation, synchro- & diachronic change, stereotypes, marker, indicator, motivation for variation

Ch3 Var & Style
Var (accent × dialect), style-shiftin (attention to speech×others×AD×SpD), socling interview, R&A survey