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Some aspects of social grammar features of one type of question in English and Yoruba

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

M. C. Grayshon
M. C. Grayshon
Affiliation:
School of Education, The University of Nottingham
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Abstract

ABSTRACT

As a more detailed example leading towards a social grammar of language three emotions are analysed first in English and then in the tonal language Yoruba. It is shown that the communication features in English which lie in intonation and stress related to grammatical position of words in English, require a change of grammar in Yoruba and that these changes are subject to further categorization by utilizing status and solidarity. As a by-product it is shown that the group of paralinguistic phenomena in English are intimately related to the communication of social status and emotion and that there is a possibility of classification by social grammar. (Expressive language, para-linguistics, social grammar, English, Yoruba.)

Type
Articles: Conversational devices and structures
Information
Language in Society , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , April 1975 , pp. 17 - 29
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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