Sociolinguistics (and the basics of language attitudes)

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[@snaplanguage]

Thank you for watching. As a linguist myself, I'm very biased, but I think language is awesome! I hope you subscribed so you don't miss the new videos we have in the works. Many will be related to sociolinguistics. Have you seen kzbin.info/www/bejne/fILOd2ePjrirbKM Cheers! :D

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[@snaplanguage]

Thank you! I started posting again in the last few weeks. I hope you enjoy them all :D I'm not a translator but, if I were translating into English, I'd be sure to use some of those linguistic features that recreate the nuance expressed in the other language, for sure. Thanks for watching and for leaving a comment! :D

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Snap Language Professor, when you’d post a coming video about the “Understanding the mechanisms involved in language attitudes” topic. I am interested to see it!

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More of these please!!!! Discourse analysis, stylistics, SLA, etc etc.

[@snaplanguage]

Thanks! I have a lot of videos planned... I just hope this year stops throwing curve balls so I can get back to working on the channel already! LOL Thanks for leaving such positive feedback! :D

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Thank you so much for the very kind feedback, Debalina! Cheers! :D

[@isgalis]

I might enroll in a Sociolinguistics class next semester! Thank you for this video~

[@snaplanguage]

Thank *you* for watching! I’m very biased to give an opinion about taking a course in sociolinguistics because I love it! If you do enroll in one, I hope you have a good, forward thinking professor. :D

[@isgalis]

@@snaplanguage Thank you very much! I've wanted to enroll previously but it depends heavily on my schedule. Have a good one and welcome back :)

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Are there on line degrees for sociolinguistics?

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I learnt a lot. Please keep on making these videos prof.

[@snaplanguage]

Thank you! The idea is to continue making videos as long as people are watching them. :) Thanks for your support :D

[@liuming3737]

Could you please make more videos about sociolinguistics? I love it!!

[@snaplanguage]

I hope you've seen the new videos that deal with sociolinguistics. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fILOd2ePjrirbKM kzbin.info/www/bejne/al6mYaRoo7Vsl9U The second one is kind of technical, so some people have to watch it a couple of times LOL but I think it's a very interesting topic. Cheers! :D

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[@snaplanguage]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. I hope you're enjoying the other videos on the channel. Cheers!

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Thank you very much, professor! greetings from Morocco!

[@snaplanguage]

You are very welcome! Greetings from the US 👍 I hope you're enjoying the rest of the channel.

[@haveto1995]

Your videos are so informative and useful. I really appreciate your work. Could you make some videos regarding sociology of languages please? I'm soooo curious about how language impacts our society.

[@snaplanguage]

Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. Check out this playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLS9dE7WMFmJgVDH_W5tkPkQBBDj0OCm86 It has some videos in that area, which happens to be one of my favorite areas in linguistics. Cheers!

[@deirdre108]

This is so interesting. A few days ago I was talking with a friend who is a non-native English speaker. She said that she was told early on by an English teacher that English was a non-inflective language and that different pronunciations of a word would not change its meaning. I thought about this and said your teacher was only partly correct. If I have a spoken sentence: "I am going tomorrow" listen to the difference in the meaning of the sentence if I emphasize one word at a time in the sentence. So I did this with her, and she heard that the sentence conveyed different subtle meanings dependent upon what word I inflected. I find this quite fascinating. This would be hard to do in writing unless the author used upper case or italics or some other marker to indicate the modulation. I very much enjoy your videos!

[@snaplanguage]

Sorry for the late reply. And yes, I've heard this "English is non-inflected" bit before. I'm not even sure what they mean exactly as it's not a term used in linguistics that way. If you take inflection to be related to prosody, you are right. English uses heavily pitch, intonation, stress, duration, and so on. Your observation about spoken and written language is spot on. Because English uses prosody heavily, you must find other ways to express nuanced meaning in writing. We use italics or bold in some cases, as you mentioned; we also use specific words or sentence/grammatical structures (e.g., "I *most certainly* am going tomorrow" or "I *do* plan on going tomorrow). What some people really mean by "non-inflected" is that English does not have declensions as German or Greek. That means that, for example, nouns and adjectives have endings that change to show the function of the word in the sentence. It is true that English has lost most of its declensions, but it does not mean that English is non-inflected. It still "changes" words in the singular and plural, present and past tenses of regular verbs, in some possessive constructions (e.g., a friend of my *father's* or a dream of *mine*). Whatever people mean when they say that, it needs to be explained Sorry for the long reply... I get fired up when I hear an interesting question like this. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!

[@ThePhilosopher29]

New subscriber here. Very informative topics that triggered my interest in Linguistic. I just discover your KZbin channel this month. I learned a lot.

[@snaplanguage]

That's awesome! Thanks for subscribing and for leaving such an encouraging message. I'm glad I got you into linguistics because of the channel. That's the whole idea... stay tuned :D

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awesome video! greetings from Turkey!

[@albertobullrich4970]

What's the difference between linguistics and philology? New subscriber to a truly fascinating and helpful series. Thank you, sir.

[@snaplanguage]

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying the channel. Philology used to refer to linguistics, but that's a dated term. Today, philology refers to the study of oral and written texts and sources of language, including literary criticism, historical linguistics (particularly in reference to etymology). Linguistics is the study of language in a broader sense. It includes areas such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics. As you can see, there is an overlap between what linguists and philologists do, but we are a proud bunch, and we like to name it different things because they have different approaches. LOL If you're interested, check out kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipzXgYGJZt2risU Thanks for watching and for leaving a comment/question. Cheers!

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Aww.. that's sweet of you to acknowledge that. Yes, it's time consuming, but I enjoy interacting with viewers. I may not be able to reply to *all* comment anymore because I started getting many subscriber, so (1) the number of comments can get overwhelming and (2) with more viewers I started getting some abusive comments from people that only seem to be interested in trolling. I will continue replying to as many comments as I can... and only the serious ones LOL Thanks for your kind words and for supporting Snap Language.

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So clear your explanation , too professional explanations. professor I hope you are transforming me to really become an expert linguist all my gratitude professor !

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That's awesome. It's so great to hear I've inspired you. Thank you for supporting the channel.

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Informative video. Thanks .. greetings from India.🙂

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Good afternoon, Snap Language. this is a extremely outstanding video. thank. :)

[@snaplanguage]

Thank you for watching! I hope you enjoy our other videos too :D

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Thank you sir, I like the way of your explanation.

[@snaplanguage]

Thank you! I'm glad you've enjoyed the video. Make sure you've clicked the bell button when you subscribed. This way you won't miss any of our new videos coming up soon. Cheers! :D

[@thoughts5]

@@snaplanguage May ask you to give us a lesson about micro macro sociolinguistics

[@luv2charlie]

My professor hosted our online class and she said, "Don't mind me, I'm Covid-chic." Is Covid creeping into our social references in language?

[@snaplanguage]

I'm sure it already has. I see "covidiot" being used without hesitation on Twitter. Any traumatic event is bound to get into popular psyche, and this pandemic is definitely a worldwide event. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment! :D

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You made it vivid and lucid sir :-)

[@snaplanguage]

Thank you, Nayyab! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. :D

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Great elaborted thank's alot

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Thank you

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Thank *you* for watching and taking the time to leave a kind comment!

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[@snaplanguage]

Aw thank you! I do hope to inspire people to learn, so thanks for watching and for such great feedback! ☺️

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well done, sir! I really really appreciate that from you. thanks a million..

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Is he coming back? I love his videos so much

[@snaplanguage]

I'm not gone! I'm not gone! LOL Finally adjusted to the so-called "new normal" and ready to get back to where I left off, that is, making new videos rather than making everything I did face-to-face go online. I hate to see subscribers go because I haven't been producing a video a week... so, I appreciate your patience :D

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Have you had a chance to watch the latest video? kzbin.info/www/bejne/fILOd2ePjrirbKM Two more coming up soon! Cheers! -- Marc

[@ruchasahasrabudhe9503]

This is a brilliant video!! Also, the not so subtle burnss omg

[@snaplanguage]

Burns? Me?! LOL /s Thanks for watching and leaving a comment :D

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Awesome! I hope you enjoy the other videos on the channel. I'll be dropping new videos soon

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Sir, I love your videos, they are master class. thank you!!!!

[@snaplanguage]

You are very welcome! Thank you for leaving such an awesome comment. Cheers! :D

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Great ride!!

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wow, such a soothing voice. I loved this video!

[@snaplanguage]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers! :D

[@multilorg3610]

A great overview

[@snaplanguage]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it :D

[@millersong3529]

Examples in the first few minutes are really interesting and educational, but they seem much fitter for pragmatics(of course, macro pragmatics could be considered a subdiscipline of sociolinguistics, always hard to distinguish and define the relation between sociolinguistics and pragmatics).

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Nice piece

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Make that series👍

[@snaplanguage]

I will! I will! LOL Thanks for the motivation. Last time I was ready to start making new videos, a pandemic started... But things have stabilized now, so I'm gearing up to start working on this coveted sociolinguistics series. :D

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Welcome back! 😊

[@snaplanguage]

Thank you! Actually, this is my third video in about a month. I hope people will start getting notifications more promptly now that I started posting more regularly. I hope you enjoy the next videos! :D

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Quite informative

[@snaplanguage]

Thank you, Hassan! I’m glad you enjoyed the video :)

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Plz guide me what linguistics is beneficial for me

[@niharbehere1584]

To anyone who claims we're "killing the art of conversation": we *ARE* the new art of conversation

[@snaplanguage]

Hah! Thanks for this comment! I love your perspective. Languages have always been changing and evolving, and I believe people have always been horrified by how "we're killing the language." Young people today will probably saying that to their grandchildren, too

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Glad you enjoyed it and hope you've been enjoying the rest of the channel (thanks for the sub). Cheers!

[@chilarius]

Can i ask for a ethymological question? I has been intrigued by the now popular word "Shenanigans". I did a some research around and it´s seems to come from California/Arizona in the 19th century. Given that those times that places were part of México, i´m starting to suspect that comes from spanish word "Chingaderas" and can have similar meanings. What do you know about it? Thanks in advance from answers.

[@snaplanguage]

Thanks for the cool question! I trust etymonline.com for this type of questions. Apparently, etymologists are unsure about the origin of "shenenigans," but they have some hypotheses. Here's what they have: www.etymonline.com/word/shenanigan

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Who is this guy? he's super intelligent.

[@snaplanguage]

Thanks! I hope you're enjoying the channel. Cheers!

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Sir please let us know when are you coming back.

[@snaplanguage]

I'm coming back! :) I have just finished several scripts. Unless an asteroid hits the planet (2020 has been quite something!) I hope to be publishing videos again starting this month. Thank you very much for supporting Snap Language! :D

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[@compulsiverambler1352]

Haha, it puts our own silly accent prejudice into perspective to be reminded that to Americans, many different British accents (especially when narrowed down to England's accents, which is usually what they mean) all have the same level of prestige. If only we heard each other the way Americans hear us instead of being self-conscious about where we fall on the regional-to-RP accent continuum, in case we sound either "too common" or "too posh" for a given social situation. For a good laugh, please look up the Irish sketch "The Savage Eye - Kerryman meets Trinity graduate" on KZbin. It's about that phenomenon of outsiders thinking everyone in a particular country sounds the same, while internally, the little differences seem huge and cause prejudice.

[@snaplanguage]

LOL Thanks for the good laugh! That skit was VERY on point! The same happens within the United States. Unless you are exposed to different regional accents, people tend to think that ALL southerners have the same accent or all northerners have the same accent, and so on. The bottom line is linguistic biases are counterproductive and... um... dumb. Thanks for watching and leaving an insightful (and funny) comment.

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You should study Ireland sociallingusticly We have the most varied dialect in the world for such a small place, Every county or state has it's own accent and slang Daycent, sca here kid yurt on a pony 🤣

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Awesome! Thanks for the feedback... I hope you enjoy the next video as much as I've been enjoying doing the research for it. :D

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I don't know whether this channel is now alive or dead but I need a help with the question, "Can a lingua franca be the mother tongue of a speaker?"

[@snaplanguage]

Hi, Mixed Bag. The channel is alive and well with many new videos in the works. Regarding your question, a lingua franca is any language that is used for communication between speakers of different native languages. English is a lingua franca used in education, technology, business, and so on. So, yes. English is a lingua franca *and* the mother tongue of millions of speakers. Other examples are French and Portuguese in Africa. Perhaps you were thinking of *pidgins,* simplified versions of a language (or languages) used to facilitate communication, especially in trade. By definition, pidgins have no native speakers. If it does develop into a full blown language (therefore, with native speakers), it is called a *creole.* Thanks for watching and leaving a question. Please consider subscribing so you're notified of new videos. :D

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@@snaplanguage Thank you so much sir 🙏

[@dr.seesaw8894]

i thought this was a great and very educating video, but i just thought there was an amusing irony to switching accents at 13:29 to mock some commenters for being stupid or ignorant, in a segment about how different accents can have harmful stereotypes associated with them

[@snaplanguage]

The struggle is real Thanks for watching and the insightful comment :)

[@almasatu]

I really enjoyed was this video until you listed words from AAVE as "millennial" language 🤦🏿‍♀️

[@snaplanguage]

Thanks for the comment. It would be helpful if you offered some detail (at least pointing out the words you are talking about). But, based on your emoji, I gather your intent is not to inform/educate but to diss. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment nonetheless.

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I disagree with you when you said that humans are social animals !

[@snaplanguage]

I suppose there *are* many of us who are anti-social though, as a species, we thrive on congregating... Thanks for watching and participating in our group conversation in the comment section! :D

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@@snaplanguage Thanks, keep up the good work, I really liked your videos :)