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believed it was possible to plan, affect, modify or systematically change the status of a language or languages within a polity
4 aspects of language development to take the step from dialect to language:
1) selection of norm
2) codification of form
3) elaboration of function
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| when there is a language shift in a diglossic situation, the shift is to the L, as the low classes just don't know the H. |
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| wrote a Brief History of American Sociolinguistics |
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| wrote Reflections on the origins of sociolinguistics in Europe |
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| map spoken dialect began in 1876 and involved surveying schoolmasters in northern Germany. He sent a list of sentences written in standardized German and requested a transcription into the local dialect. |
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| created the Atlas Linguistique de la France |
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| initiated the American Linguistic Atlas Project |
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| language bioprogram theory |
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| listeners' reaction responses |
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