Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociolinguistics/Slang

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The goal of this wikiproject is to produce some info about Sociolinguistics for wikipedia. What is sociolinguistics? Briefly: it's the study of how people talk. Many articles that are about language or linguistics or grammar to some extent do not address spoken phenomena at all. In the informal versus formal speech (and codification) battle, the informal is often disdained, called "nonsense" or "pointless".

People should know that written language is a blip compared to spoken language. The most prominent features of spoken language should be covered before smaller, more esoteric ones. I think slang is very important. Since Sociolinguistcs is the field that deals with slang with no slant towards the codified and proper, but as linguistic phenomena with no value judgement attached, I thought a project would be the proper context to present content on informal speech/slang on this 'pedia.

If you are an expert or a medium-knowledge person in this field, please contribute. anyone: Feel free to give a me a holler if you have any thoughts about this subject matter or related stuff at user talk:kzzl or the talk page here. Feel free to sign as a participant if you help. Any ideas on how to organize would be kick-ass. Thanks, Kzzl

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[edit] spoken vs. written lang

spoken English- this should not point to english language. there might be a better place for it to point but I haven't found it yet. spoken lang. is different.
nonstandard pronunciation- start a stub. points to IPA now. I think perhaps "pronunciation" is better. I created this after coming across category:wikipedia articles with nonstandard pronunciation. it's a strange and cool tag that probly needs work. it links to some talk pages and other mainspace articles.

[edit] to create

whole nother (or whole 'nother) - should probably redirect to a, an. prominent feature of spoken discourse. there is some cool cognitive aspect to this. "another", "an", "other" & "a" are words. "nother" is not. except- people user it. it's almost always found with "whole".