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AL8470 – Sociolinguistics

Instructor/Creator: Stephanie Lindemann Institution/Campus/Department: Applied Linguistics and ESL, Georgia State University Course: AL8470 – Sociolinguistics Subject(s): Sociolinguistics Topic(s): Code Communities, Disadvantage, Discrimination, Ethnography, Gender, Language Planning, Language Variation, Language Variation and Change, Language Varieties, Linguistic Relativism;, Sociolinguistics and Education, Solidarity and Politeness, Speech Communities, Talk… Read More »AL8470 – Sociolinguistics

ANT206Y5 – Culture and Communication: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

Instructor/Creator: Dylan Clark Institution/Campus/Department: Anthropology, University of Toronto Course: ANT206Y5 – Culture and Communication: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Subject(s): Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Topic(s): Class and ethnicity, Gender, language endangerment, language in social action, language revitalization, multi-racial… Read More »ANT206Y5 – Culture and Communication: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

Cuz it ain’t in the dictionary

This morning in my English composition class, composed mainly of Japanese speakers, I came upon another pitfall of relying on “in the dictionary” as a test of acceptability. The verb ‘ruralize’, which rarely appears in books published after 1940, is nevertheless present in bilingual dictionaries.