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Quote of the Day: What Does This Mean?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119072256.ch24
Sociolinguistic theory provides a dynamic view in which change is apprehended in progress, so that leaders and laggards can be identified and both the course of its diffusion and its rate can be delineated. The philosopher William James distinguished concepts, the idealization of reality, from percepts, the apprehension of reality. In order to demonstrate how the analysis of variable linguistic data proceeds and what its correlations with independent variables reveal, the chapter discusses a well-studied variable of English often symbolized (CC) but sometimes called (more descriptively) final stop deletion or morpheme-final consonant cluster simplification. The core social attributes affecting language use are social class, social networks, sex and gender, ethnicity, and age. Sociolinguistics is the science of parole or ergon or performance. Like grammatical competence, sociolinguistic competence is neither taught nor consciously learned. It is simply acquired by virtue of human nature, and deeply embedded in it.
The fruits of wondering what my student meant when referring to social-linguistic theory.
I’d prefer we don’t blame this on William James. I like James. He makes sense.
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And speaking of Leibniz, he’s still pretty dang awesome.
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It sounds like something coming out of a government bureaucracy. It means nothing but took some time to write and so passed some time for its author earning his or her salary.
There’s a quote from a science fiction novel by Stephen R. Donaldson it reminds me of. It’s a scary sounding threat from an alien being which also sounds very boring and bureaucratic:
“Conformity of purpose will be achieved through the mutual satisfaction of requirements.”
Maybe we should stamp it “Top Secret” and leak it to the Democrats.
There’s another variable of English often symbolized (BS) and used in the phrase, ‘If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with…”