Language, the Social MirrorDiscusses the ways people use language in society with chapters on kinesics, dialect, and bilingualism. |
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accent activity actually adult American American English answer asked baby behavior bilingual Black British CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ called Canadian French casual Chapter consonant conversation CRUZ The University culture dialect diglossia diphthong discourse educated English speakers ethnic example feel female formal French give glossolalia glossolalic grammar greeting Gumperz hear hypercorrect indicate instance Italian jargon kinesics Labov lawyer linguistic male markers Martha's Vineyard meaning middle-class monolingual native nonstandard nonstandard dialects occur oral original person phatic pronounced pronunciation proxemics question r]-full r]-less regional response rhyme ritual insulting Robin Lakoff rules sentences sexual signal social class society sociolinguistic someone sounds Spanish speak speaking in tongues speech spoken style talk tape tell tense things toasts tongue topic typically UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA usually variation verb verbal voice vowel White woman women words Yiddish York City