For the final paper, my topic is going to be on ‘sense and denotation’. I am planning to use my own research for one of the main sources for this paper. I want to create a survey/form to determine what people use more in their everyday vocabulary for specific words that have many words but mean the same thing. For example, mom and mother mean the same thing, but depending on who you ask, one person might say mom, and another person may say mother, depending on the context. In this survey, I would ask questions like “who do you live with?” or “who raised you growing up?”. I also want to ask questions about the person’s background (not super extensive) and try to relate this to sociolinguistics as well. When looking at semantics and pragmatics, a big part of it is the language you speak and how you speak it. For instance, if someone lives in New York, and someone lives in California, their dialect is going to be different and not just because of their region but could be based on their background, social class, and other socioeconomic factors. I want to tie together these two topics because I feel like they can definitely relate in some sort of way. For the format of the paper, I’m hoping it’ll look something like this.

• Intro
• Definition of Sense/ Denotation and the differences
• Research analysis( with graphs)
• Sociolinguistics and how it could relate
• Conclusion

The outline is definitely just a rough draft and what it could be if it all works out, I don’t have a Plan B but hopefully, everything works out smoothly and flows because I think this paper and research could be super interesting!

P.S. Once I create the form I’m hoping everyone will participate! (It will be anonymous)

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