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Crash Course Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Season 1
Episode 7
Language is an important part of our identities, and the ways we feel about how others use language is influenced by society. The study of the social element of language, and how it forms part of our identity is sociolinguistics. linguistic differences between languages are based on factors such as location, education, class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
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11:55
We learn about orthographies, the different components that make up a writing system.
11:32
We learn about the process of programming computers to process human language.
11:31
We explore factors to learn about world languages and linguistic diversity.
12:23
We learn about how and why languages change.
11:02
We learn about language acquisition and how the process differs for babies and adults.
11:13
We learn about psycholinguistics - the field of study of language and the brain.
11:34
We learn about 6 vowel letters and the numerous sounds we make when using them.
11:16
We begin our discussion of phonetics, the study of speech sounds.
10:07
We cover Grice’s Maxims and the different types of conversational styles.
10:53
We break down what roles different types of words and phrases play within a sentence.