SOCIOLINGUISTICS
by Lina Grisales
1. Society
1.1. Certain purpose
1.2. Group of people
2. Language
2.1. Linguistic communication
3. Code
3.1. System to communicate
3.1.1. Grammar
3.1.1.1. Prescriptive rules
3.1.1.2. Descriptive: describe, analize and explain
4. Variants
4.1. Competence
4.2. Performance
4.2.1. Varies across speakers
4.2.1.1. Diferents structures
4.2.2. Speech
4.2.3. Comprehensive theory of language
5. Power
5.1. Form gropus with others
5.2. Identify ourselves
5.3. Ability to control events
5.3.1. Achieve aims
5.4. Control
5.4.1. Outcomes
5.5. Symbolic power
5.5.1. Language- Greater value
5.5.2. Authority in conversations
6. Whorfian hypothesis
6.1. Linguistic structure
6.1.1. Social structure
6.2. Change language
6.2.1. Change behavior
6.3. Lingustic determinism
6.4. Social categories
7. Perception
8. The Goal: Generalizations
8.1. Influence use of Language
8.2. Understand
8.2.1. Social groups
8.2.2. Ways they speak
8.3. In Fact: Language exhibit internal variation
9. A way of viewing the world
10. Study
10.1. Analyze speech
10.2. Through
10.2.1. Surveying people
10.2.2. Recording interactions
11. Identity
11.1. Linguistic construction of membership
11.2. Language
11.2.1. Speaker identity
11.3. Ways of being
11.4. Gropus identy categories
12. Culture
12.1. Knowledge socially acquired
12.1.1. Believes, Knowledges, Actions