Sociolinguistics Compilation
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Contents
Sociolinguistics tutorial 1 13-9...............................................................................................................2
Sociolinguistics tutorial 2 18-10.............................................................................................................3
Sociolinguistics tutorial 3 8-11...............................................................................................................5
Sociolinguistics tutorial 4 22-11.............................................................................................................6
Sociolinguistics tutorial 5 6-12...............................................................................................................7
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, Sociolinguistics tutorial 1 13-9
What are different ways of greeting each other and what factors underly those differences?
Source of academic sources: Google scholar, library catalogue
Why is it important to study sociolinguistics in International Studies? Relate sociolinguistics to the
four pillars of IS: history, politics, economics, culture (and language).
Variation: there are loads of ways to say something
Idiolect: someone’s personal distinctive way of speaking
Competence: unconscious rules that all speakers (should) know of and apply while speaking
performance: what actually comes out; how speakers showcase the way you speak
communicative competence: you have linguistic knowledge of how to apply competence in a social
fashion (some people know how to speak a language but do not know how to convey that
competence in social situations)
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Document
Contents
Sociolinguistics tutorial 1 13-9...............................................................................................................2
Sociolinguistics tutorial 2 18-10.............................................................................................................3
Sociolinguistics tutorial 3 8-11...............................................................................................................5
Sociolinguistics tutorial 4 22-11.............................................................................................................6
Sociolinguistics tutorial 5 6-12...............................................................................................................7
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, Sociolinguistics tutorial 1 13-9
What are different ways of greeting each other and what factors underly those differences?
Source of academic sources: Google scholar, library catalogue
Why is it important to study sociolinguistics in International Studies? Relate sociolinguistics to the
four pillars of IS: history, politics, economics, culture (and language).
Variation: there are loads of ways to say something
Idiolect: someone’s personal distinctive way of speaking
Competence: unconscious rules that all speakers (should) know of and apply while speaking
performance: what actually comes out; how speakers showcase the way you speak
communicative competence: you have linguistic knowledge of how to apply competence in a social
fashion (some people know how to speak a language but do not know how to convey that
competence in social situations)
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