Human Growth and Development / Unit 5 HGD 0638 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Pragmatics and Code-Switching
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The idea
Pragmatics is using language appropriately in context, taking turns and adjusting to listeners; code-switching is changing language or variety with the setting.
In practice
A child speaking one way to a baby sibling and another way to a teacher.
Where people slip
African American Vernacular English has its own grammar; researchers report negative stereotypes about it from preschool on.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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