Семинар 5. Речь, контекст, ситуация
ПЛАНЫ СЕМИНАРСКИХ ЗАНЯТИЙ
Семинар 1. Основы социолингвистики
1. General methodology of sociolinguistics.
2. Two approaches to the process of cognition: social and linguistic.
3. History of Sociolinguistic investigations.
4. Problems of modern sociolinguistics.
5. Sociolinguistics in relation to other social sciences.
6. Language policy of states and people.
7. Sociolinguists' tasks in conditions of languages disappearance.
8. Sociolinguistic problems under discussion in Russia, America, Great Britain.
9. Structuralisation of sociolinguistic problems.
10. Functionalism in Sociolinguistic researches.
Семинар 2. Язык и социальное взаимодействие
(интеракция, переплетение)
1. Kinds of languages used for establishing social relationship.
2. The characteristics of geographical and social dialect continuity.
3. The characteristics of mutual intelligibility, autonomy-heteronomy.
4. Dialect/language discreteness and continuity.
5. The characteristic features of dialects (in English).
6. Standard English, its status and structure.
7. The Standard English accent (Received Pronunciation).
8. The social status of Standard English.
9. Characterize the term wrong, ugly, corrupt variety of English.
10.A linguist's evaluation of the English language varieties.
11.Subjective attitudes towards linguistic forms.
12.The effects of language on society (E. Sapir and B.L. Worf hypothesis), pros and cons.
13. The effect of society and environment upon languages (three points to prove).
14. The characteristics and social status of taboos.
15.The status of sociolinguistics and other subjects dealing with social language problems.
Семинар 3. Язык и социальные классы
1. The effect of social differentiation on the national language.
2. Dialectologists' view on barriers.
3. Characteristics of social classes stratification (India, for example).
4. Social situation in the English speaking world.
5. Characterize homogeneous and heterogeneous dialects.
6. Dialectological linguistic atlases.
7. The problems of speech description (W. Labov's quantative measurement).
8. Weak points in rural dialectological studies.
9. Sociolinguists' critical review of urban dialect studies.
10.Dialect situation in Great Britain today.
11.Characterize accent continuum in Great Britain.
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12.The ways of measuring language stratification (Detroit and Norwich experiments).
13.Characterize the notions of dialect admixture and inherent variability.
14.Labov's study of consonantal variation
15.The study of vowel changes in Norwich.
16.Critical review of social class differentiation.
Семинар 4. Язык и национальность
1. An essence of sociolinguistic experiment carried out with the speakers.
2. The results of this linguistic experiment and the racial problems of ethnic groups.
3. Widely believed theories of language-race relationship and prejudices.
4. Language is an essential feature of ethnic-group membership. Prove it.
5. The first case of a language as a defining characteristic of ethnic-group relation (the African phenomenon).
6. A variety of language as a defining feature of ethnic group identity.
7. Characteristics of an ethnic group as a fluid entity ( Yugoslavia phenomenon).
8. Definition of a substratum variety (the speech of Yiddish and Italian forbears).
9. The substratum effect in the English language (a Scot phenomenon).
10.The substratum effect in the American English (Black English, its routes).
11.General characteristics of AAVE in the USA and else where.
12.Two view on the status of AAVE nowadays.
13.A review of phonologic features of AAVE (four features).
14.Grammatical differences between AAVE and other forms of English (the first).
15.The linguistic treatment of the copula absence in AAVE (second feature).
16.The linguistic treatment of the so-called invariant be absence in AAVE.
17.The linguistic treatment of the syntactic features of AAVE.
18.A sociologist's and dialectologist's view on the origin and controversies of AAVE (the first two).
19.An Internationalist's and creolist's view on the origin of AAVE (the third and the fourth).
20.An impartial linguist's view on the features of AAVE.
21.The latest view which has appeared in the works of American sociolinguistic works.
Семинар 5. Речь, контекст, ситуация
1. Language varies according to social context.
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2. Characteristics of registers.
3. Other situation factors, which have a linguistic effect.
4. The relative status of USA and English participants in discourse.
5. The same relationship in languages other than English (T and V users).
6. The gradual rise of democratic egalitarian ideology in social statuses.
7. Grammatical and lexical variations depending on the status relationship.
8. Styles in relation to social situations (different means of expression).
9. Define the term Verbal repertoire in relation to a particular occasion.
10.The pronunciation changes according to the scale of formality in Britain.
11.W. Labov's experiments in formal styles of pronunciation in New York.
12.Experiments in the sphere of normal casual speech.
13.Pronunciation and social class stratification (p.6).
14.Situational switching in dialects (England/Scotland).
15.Charles Ferguson's view on the dialect switching (diglossia).
16.The main difference between diglossic and other social situations.
17.Linguistic characteristics of low and high varieties in diglossic situations (p.8).
18.The language problems in Switzerland and Luxemburg.
19.The stability of diglossic situations (Greece). 8
20.The problem of language switching in Luxemburg.
21.The nature of language switching in Paraguay.
22.Education problems in the situation of diglossia in different countries.
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