Rapid Linguistics Review!

The study of the relationship between language and society, specifically the effects social factors have on language use and language structures is known as...

• pragmatics

• sociolinguistics

• ideology

What is a corpus?

• possible realizations of variation phenomena, such as rhotic and non-rhotic pronunciations of post-vocalic /r/

• a set of procedures or methods for analyzing naturally occurring language data

• A collection of naturally occurring examples of language collected for linguistic study; more recently refers to collections of texts that are stored and accessed electronically

A feature of language which varies is called a linguistic _______? An example of this is rhoticity in Labov's department store study.

An ideology is...

• the cultural (or subcultural) system of ideas about social and linguistic relationships, together with their loading of moral and political interests

• the study of the functions of sounds belonging to a given sound system

• a set of linguistic features (phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical) used in a given register or in a given geographical area or by a given social group.

________ refers to the vocabulary and grammatical structures chosen (and even expected) in a certain communicative situation. Choices are strongly influenced by discourse topic, relationship between interlocuters and medium of communication.

• variety

• register

• dialect

Which subfield of linguistics studies the meaning or meaning potential of various kinds of expressions, words, phrases and sentences?