Language and Society: What Your Speech Says About You

Discover the remarkable ways in which our society is a reflection of our language and how our linguistic choices play a determining role in every aspect of our lives.

• By This Professor
• 01: What Does Your Speech Say about You?
• 02: Does Language Influence Worldview?
• 03: What Is Sociolinguistics?
• 04: Four Levels of Language Variation
• 05: How Do Dialects Develop?
• 06: Language Change-What's New Is Old Again
• 07: The Origin and History of American Dialects
• 08: Your Shifty Vowels
• 09: Vowel Shifts and Regional American Speech
• 10: Language and Social Class
• 11: Sex, Age, and Language Change
• 12: Language Attitudes and Social Perception
• 13: Language as a Communicative Process
• 14: Making Sense of Conversational Intentions
• 15: Analyzing Conversation
• 16: The Mechanics of Good Conversation
• 17: Mind Your Manners-Politeness Speech
• 18: Linguistic Style and Repertoire
• 19: The Gender Divide in Language
• 20: Ethnic Identity and Language
• 21: Socializing Children into Language
• 22: Language, Adolescence, and Education
• 23: Textspeak-2 Bad 4 English?
• 24: The Changing Face of Linguistic Diversity