Life as a Sociolinguist | Dr David Hornsby | Think Kent

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Most English speakers are aware of differences in speech varieties, be they geographical (Geordie vs. Cockney), social (‘posh’ v ‘working-class’ accents), or stylistic (all of us modify our speech according to our circumstances and audience). So it was surprising that sociolinguistics, which explores the relationship between language and society, was not considered an important area of study until the 1960s. In this lecture, David Hornsby explores some early sociolinguistic findings, and then considers the more complex questions that sociolinguists are currently asking. Do different kinds of linguistic change happen in different types of community, for example, and what happens when migration brings speakers of different dialects together? In some cases, new mixed dialects or ‘koinés’ can develop. A rare example of a koiné can be heard in the east Kent coalfield, and is the subject of David’s current research.

ABOUT DR DAVID HORNSBY
David has been interested in language variation since early childhood, but only discovered that a subject called ‘variationist sociolinguistics’ existed when he went to university. He has worked on variation and change in French and English, and teaches a range of modules focused on spoken language variation in both languages. He also teaches modules on the history of English and the history of French, both of which consider change from a sociolinguistic perspective. Since his area of study is spoken language, he has been spuriously claiming to be ‘working’ whenever he’s chatting to others, or even eavesdropping on pub conversations, since taking up his post at Kent in 1990.

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