Sociolinguistics - the study of variation in language 

I have an exam tomorrow in sociolinguistics and this video was very helpful thank you sir!

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Im going to be honest right now. Firstly thank you so much for the clean video. It was indeed very helpful... but my problem is, In general we don't give enough value to helpful people like you and that bothers me a lot because without you I don't think I could learn the basics of sociolinguistics. We don't look up for you until we have an exam or whatever, so Im here to give some love :) thank you so much again. (not a native speaker of English)

I am an undergraduate student who took an introduction to linguistics course and loved it. Since that was all my school offered, I decided to do an independent study in sociolinguistics. This presentation was extremely helpful and I look forward to your other videos!

I really appreciate your timing for explaining these sociolinguistics issues in such a professional way and thepatience you have as presenter, especially for those whose English is not their second language, so we understand perfectly.

Good evening. I am a MA student in linguistics and this video has been recommended to us as an essential introduction to Sociolinguistics. I would like to thank you as I found it really useful.

This is so interesting, thank you. I am sure most people will be aware that Mrs Thatcher's accent around 36.30 was not her native accent. She had elocution/public speaking lessons to develop it.

Wow I just looked up Wiliam Labov again as you reminded me he exists, he is 94 years old as of today. He put 60 years into the study given he started in 1960. Such a die hard icon. Thanks for the video.

U have shared almost every element related to language variation .i must say hats off to u.thats y i dare to ask my questions.thnx alot

This is a very complete video about Sociolinguistics, good examples and detailed explanation. Thanks!

Thank you very much for this video, it helps English Language students to go deeper into the sociolinguistics study.

This is one of my favorite videos on RU-vid. Love your channel.

Thanks a lot! This video has helped me understand Lyons as well. Really look forward to watching the following ones. Cheers from Argentina.

I really liked the way you taught this course. I really learnt and finally I could clear my doubts about what a dialect is. Keep going! Thanks a lot!

I find your videos highly educative, especially as I'm preparing for my sociolinguistics test, thank you!

Sociolinguistics is difficult But is important for learning Difference between levels the language Video is wonderful Thank you very much

I found this video very useful. Personally, I think everything is very well explained. This video pluss the discussion that we have had in class about these particular topics and concepts make me understand better what sociolinguistic is about. thus thank you very much for share your knowledge with us. Miriam Gabriela Ramos.

What an excellent video! You are such an engaging presenter. I appreciate the use of a note slideshow, especially one that has so many specific audio and visual examples of the concepts. I wish my actual university presented class material this effectively.

Your explanation about the phonological difficulty in pronouncing "cleverer" in AE is interesting . It is definitely difficult to articulate, but my language teachers always taught us that one-syllable words could take "-er" endings, but two or more syllable words had to be formed with "more."

My knowledge about the topic became stronger after watching this video. thank you so much. I have exam of sociolinguistics paper in the first week of next month :-)

This is an amazing video, I could comprehend many things about sociolinguistics because everything is explained so clearly. This is a great resource to share and discuss in class, thank you for this wonderful video. Good job!

I don't have sociolingustics exam tommorow or whenever, just came across your chanell and enjoyed it a lot. Thank you for sharing your classes!

Excellent video! I've watched other videos about this subject, but the distinction between linguistics and sociolinguistics became really clear to me when I saw your slides about internal and external factors that explain variation.

Thank you! You are helping me with almost every class I am taking this semester (sociolinguistics, syntax, morphology)

This is the kind of Professor I need for life!

This is interesting, entertaining and informative. I can also see how RP (BBC) English was an indicator of upper class upbringing and at the other end Cockney English a symbol of the working class. The news reader with RP English has long gone. Maggie thatcher was a good example of RP as is Joanna Lumley. In N Ireland drive 20 kilometres in any direction and the dialect changed, but in NZ especially the North island, the dialect remained the same over the entire island. In the south of NZ people rolled their rs in Invercargill due to the influence of Scottish settlers. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and research.

Every single word you said is really appreciated, thank you for such great effort 🌹🌹🌹

Great video! Thanks for this short, informative, brilliant introduction to language variation and its role in sociolinguistics.

My professor made me watch your video, thankyou for this:)

how are you still replying 6 years after posting this? truly the most consistent person!

I like the video and the way how you explain those issues of sociolinguistic, the real examples, etc. I could notice the professionalism that you used at the moment of talking about this branch of linguistic.

I really enjoyed this video and it is interesting learn new terms of sociolinguistics, also despite this is a long video I didn't get boring rather than I felt curiousity of the different examples which you gave us , all the information is useful and enrich us in this area.

Dear Professor, thank you for giving such a good lecture! I like the way you introduce the study. I can see that you're really teaching, passing the knowledge instead of showing that you know these things :))) Hope one day I'll have the opportunity to attend your course.

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I really liked the video, the examples that you gave. Thank you so much to share this to all of us, it has been very useful not only for my task also in my professional growing! thanks a lot!!

Thank you so much sir, excellent explanation with cristal clear. I understand well with ur lecture ❤.

This Video helps me to understand more about sociolinguistic course, thank you very much.

This is video is so great!!! Although I am not a student majoring in linguistics, I can understand what are you mostly talking about. This topic is really interesting that I want to know more :D Many thanks :D

Thanks for this video.... Better impossible. You have the art of explaining accurately. I have clear many doubts and hopefully I will use this knowledge acquire with my future students. God Bless You Marti Hilpert! :)

12:40 I'm almost certain that's the voice of comedian Dara Ó Briain, who's not English, but Irish :) I've heard his voice many times. But it also sounds to me like he uses a short /ae/ in "answer", like a person from northern England would

i must acknowledge this is a great video. thanks

This is splendid and inspirational! Thanks a lot, Martin. I hope you carry on creating these great videos.

Thank you for sharing sir here are my highlights i've listed: - Sociolinguistics is the study of language variation in society, including pronunciation, vocabulary, and sentence structure. - Language choices reflect social identity and are influenced by factors such as geography, socioeconomic class, ethnicity, gender, age, and sexual orientation. - Dialects are characteristic of specific groups and are just as grammatical as standard varieties. - Sociolinguists examine both linguistic and social factors to explain language variation. - Overt prestige is associated with standard language, while covert prestige is linked to stigmatized dialect features. - Sociolinguistics reveals how language variation is shaped by society and identity.

Thanks so much Professor. Very informative and grateful for this lecture.

27:36 Norwich is pronounced without "w".

Sir, I am a student of BS Eng Lit & Ling. ur lectures are very simple to understand. Please deliver the letures about pragmatics & semantics.

Amazing knowledge about sociolinguistics

very nicely prepared introduction. very useful.

Thank you very much for this video, I really enjoyed and I learned about the different things of sociolinguistic and I found very clear the most important of the sociolinguistics terms.

have an assignment nd found this very helpful thank u so much

Sociolinguistics looks so interesting. Thanks, Martin.

thanks a lot, your way of explaining this topic was very clear.I would like to ask you this question: What does the relationship between language and culture mean to a certain group and to the individuals within these groups?

Thank you so much, Martin. You're awesome. greetings from Brazil

Thank you for your clear explanation, Professor Hilpert!

Amazing, thanks for the effort.

I am non native speaker but I can understand your pronunciation very clearly thanks for sharing this informative video

Hi Martin I'm loving your presentations on Sociolinguistics they are a fantastic addition to my university lectures . Can you recommend any books to help me dig deeper into sociolinguistics? Looking forward to watching many more of your videos.

I call them soft drinks... Very educational video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Dear Prof. Hilpert, thank you very much for this video! I would like to ask you if there are some papers, literatures and materials in general about myths about dialects and where I can them online. I would like to quote what you are saying in this video and it would help me to know on which papers you based this video. Thank you very much!

Hi sir First thank you very much for this great video. it has helped me a lot. Please keep on explaining things related to general linguistics.It is one of the main topics in our studying. Please explain Chomsky's MP , it is very difficult and one of the main sources in our course😰😧😫😵

I have an exam tomorrow and this was very helpful. Thank you so much !

Great video Sir, a very pleasant lecture Greetings from Italy

Si usted ve esto y está haciendo lo de fonética a última hora, usted es de los míos.

Another great lecture! Thank you Dr. Hilpert.

Thank you very much for video. Very clear explanations. Really enjoyed.

Hi, I would like to ask you about the rhetorical effect in a speech or a text. Could you please explain the concept and its connection in a spoken and written text?/ Best regards

thank u this is so helpful I'm writing everything down. wish me luck in the exam

thank you very much prof, this video really helped me in preparing my dissertation proposal about variations of local languages ​​in Indonesia :)

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I have a question about dialect and accent Sir. Is it that dialect has to do with varieties in words or diction and accents has to do with varieties in pronunciation?

Very useful, THANKS from Algeria

Excellent. Thank you very much.

Very useful. Thanks a lot, sir.

very helpful ...Thank you Sir

Love it!! Thanks so much Martin.

Very informative and entertaining at the same time, TY!

Thank u sm, Sir! Helps me a lot for group project

16:35 Unless negative concord is used in most writing and formal business in these regions, it's not a "rule" and you don't "have to do it". It's just a spoken tendency in those regions.

15:30 "I wonder what those people are saying" I can tell you personally a more outdated term for what is now soda in the North East of US is "tonic" or /tɑnɪk/

thank you so much ! the video was very helpful.

what sociolinguistics say about use and usage of language.what is the difference between language use and language usage?with examples plzzzz .

If I ever meet the grammar sheriff I'll tell him what I learned here.

It's excellent Sir! Thanks!

Thank You sir. i got so much information from your class. Hope to pass my exam tomorrow...

I have enjoyed and benefited greatly, thank you.

Hi... Thanks... I like it... it is very helpfull.

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Such a great and interesting lecture, thank you!👍🏻

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That was great, I feel amused to be honest but I am an English learner and wanted to know what had been said before 15:30 in your presentation. In their what? I have to say that this introduction to sociolinguistics has never been clarified so clearly to me that is why I want to thank you and I hope it will let me get a credit. Bye!

is there a concept of appropriateness to apply in stylistic variation in language?

Very useful for me. Thanks so much for the video.

I have exam tomorrow and this sociolinguistic video very helpful thank you sir

thanks Martin, the way you use is so professional

A very informative and easy to follow introduction. Thankyou!

hi..i like this video and was a pleasure to me, have the opportunity to listen and learn at the same time of the explaining of these sociolisguistics issues, all the examples were interesting to understand terms of my sociolinguistic class. i really enjoyed....:D

Very informative

Thank you so much.

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Thank you so much!!! This really helped