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Crash Course Linguistics
Language Change and Historical Linguistics
We learn about how and why languages change.
Sociolinguistics
Welcome to Crash Course Linguistics! Linguistics is everywhere and is super useful for pretty much everyone. Over 16 episodes, Taylor Behnke will teach you all about language, from its structure, to the relationship between language and our identity, the brain, and computers, to writing, language acquisition, and the diversity of human languages!
Sociolinguistics
Season 1 Episode 7 | 11m 32s | CC
Language is an important part of our identities, and the ways we feel about how others use language is influenced by society. The study of the social element of language, and how it forms part of our identity is sociolinguistics. linguistic differences between languages are based on factors such as location, education, class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
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