that munanga linguist

As mentioned in my last post , in my lecturing this semester I've been trying to exemplify key concepts in sociolinguistics via popular culture. I have a stock of these snippets and hope to find time to share a few more. As I said previously, it's an effort to engage students and adhere to the philosophy that "when all is said and done, we study sociolinguistics because it is fun" (Meyerhoff 2011: 4) In part two, we jump to this week's lecture where we looked at various of definitions of 'speech community' and then how concepts of social networks and community of practice have built upon notions of speech community. Key concept : Social networks, unlike macro-social categories such as class, group people according to interactions (and can then tell us more about linguistic variation) Concept in more detail:  Some sociolinguistic studies have shown how important social networks are in explaining language variation and change (or lack of change). Accor