Name: 你的演講風格，對你的評價是什麼｜Vera Regan｜TEDxDublin (What your speaking style, like, says about you | Vera Regan | TEDxDublin)
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Translator: Shanshan (Alice) Lin Reviewer: Denise RQ

Sociolinguists study the role of language in society.

Sociolinguists are professional eavesdroppers.

in what the people are saying, but how they're saying it.

For sociolinguists, language is neither good nor bad.

and I heard two young girls chatting behind me.

And he was like, 'Well, it's only, like, two miles."

And the first one goes, "Yeah, like, totes."

There was an elderly lady sitting nearby,

and she's looking very disapproving indeed.

we don't bother disapproving about language.

First of all, we can't stop language changing.

New stuff comes in, it moves. Nothing to be done.

she was very likely the young woman who was using

Because research has shown that young women

are the movers and shakers when it comes to language.

They're the ones we should be listening to.

with an idea of word order in his language, whatever that is.

So, he knows that it's subject, verb, object.

if we see something like this or like that,

Because we know that the word order should be subject, verb, object.

However, there are many aspects of language where we do have a choice.

And these are the fun bits for the sociolinguists.

Just take two ways of saying the same thing.

[ I have not the pleasure of understanding it ]

The referential meaning is what's similar.

that makes such a difference and gives us such knowledge

of the speaker, on the one hand, the hearer, on the other,

the social context they're living in, on the third.

And we really need to tune in to this stuff.

When I was studying at the University of Pennsylvania,

with William Labov, who's the founder of the field,

I was excited to think what we could do when we came back to Ireland

and looked at what we use here in terms of language.

So with my group of postgraduate students,

we decided to study the little word "like".

So, with a bunch of PhD students, we sat round the table,

and we said, "OK, we're going to do 'like'.

We're going to bring a little magnifying glass down on this

Not this 'like', "She was like her sister,"

But this 'like', "She was like, 'Cheers'."

They're the "likes" of the young women on the bus.

You might say that nonstandard "like" is all over the place.

That it's got no rules, it's lazy, it's chaotic, it's disorderly.

And there are very strict rules, in fact, around how nonstandard "like" is used.

Where it comes in the sentence, - syntactic constraints, as we call it -

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你的演講風格，對你的評價是什麼｜Vera Regan｜TEDxDublin (What your speaking style, like, says about you | Vera Regan | TEDxDublin)

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