Sociolinguistics

When I was in 6th grade, we often took ’trips’ to the computer lab during science class. Towards the beginning of the year, we were conducting an ecological report on an animal of our choosing, and our teacher Mrs. Blake taught us a lesson about finding credible sources and citing them. Here were the basic tenants I learned: ✔️ Whenever possible, reference .edu and .gov sources ❌ Do not cite Wikipedia as your only source ...

Linguistic Landscapes Language in Culture and Community Spoken language has consistently proven a difficult entity to research because it——like a cultural value——is highly untangible. This intangible component of society is referred to as a ‘mentifact.’ Mentifact (noun): the intangible, ideological components of a culture such as its shared ideas, values, beliefs, attitudes, preferences, and knowledge. A mentifact is one of three subcategories that can be combined to sum up the traits of a culture (Three Components of Culutre). These three components of culture include mentifacts, sociofacts, and artifacts. ...