Mindmapping (Sociolinguistics)

I. What Do Sociolinguists Study?

1)    What is a sociolinguists?

1)     The study of relationship between language and society

2)    Why do we say the same thing in different ways?

1)     Languages provide a variety of ways of saying the same thing

1)      Describing things

2)      Paying Compliments

3)      Addressing and Greeting

3)    Social Factors

1)     The Participants

2)     The Function

3)     The Topic

4)     The Setting or Social Context

4)    What are the different ways we say things?

1)     Choice may involve different dialect and quite different language

5)    Looking for explanation

1)     to identify clearly the linguistic variation involved

2)     to identify clearly the different social or non-linguistic factors

6)    Social Dimensions

1)     Two functional scales

2)     Social distance scale

3)     Formality Scale

4)     Status Scale

 

II. Language Choice in Multilingual Communities

1)    Choosing Your Variety or Code

1)     What is your linguistic repertoire?

2)     Modelling variety or code choice

3)     Domains of language use

4)     Other social factors affecting code choice

2)    Diglossia

1)     A linguistic division of labour

2)     Attitude to H vs L in a diglossia situation

3)     Extending the scope of diglossia

4)     Changes in a diglossia situation

5)     Polyglossia

3)    Code-switching or Code-mixing

1)     Participants, solidarity, and status

2)     Metaphorical switching

3)     Attitude to code-switching

4)     Linguistic constraints

5)     Switching for affective functions