Editing Sociolinguistics (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Applying</span> ==
'''Modeling Code-Switching Logic:'''
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def select_register(audience, setting):
    """
    Decides which linguistic register/variety to use.
    """
    if setting == 'formal':
        if audience == 'professional':
            return "Standard Academic English"
        else:
            return "Polite Formal English"
    elif setting == 'casual':
        if audience == 'peers':
            return "Vernacular / Slang"
        elif audience == 'family':
            return "Heritage Language / Dialect"
            
    return "Neutral Baseline"

# Identity construction through choice
print(f"At a conference: {select_register('professional', 'formal')}")
print(f"With friends: {select_register('peers', 'casual')}")
# We all do this automatically (Code-switching).
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; Sociolinguistic Phenomena
: '''African American Vernacular English (AAVE)''' → A rule-governed, systematic variety of English with its own complex grammar (e.g., the "habitual be").
: '''Gendered Speech''' → Research into "uptalk" or "vocal fry" and how these features are judged differently when used by men vs. women.
: '''Politeness Theory''' → How we use language to "save face" for ourselves and others (Brown and Levinson).
: '''Language Policy''' → Governments deciding which language to use in schools or on road signs (e.g., Quebec's Bill 101).
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