language, society and culture
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LANGUAGE, SOCIETY AND CULTUREBy Camilo Saavedra
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Language variation
Speaker Situation
Factors that belong to the speaker, the person who speaks a certain dialect’s
features
Factors that come from the
situation or context of
communication
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Sociolinguistics
Language
Important to form social
organisations
Society
Anthropology Sociology Psichology
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Social Dialects
Variety of language used by groups
defined according to
Class
Education
Age
Sex
Other paramet
ers
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Prestige
Overt prestigeCovert
prestige
Positively valued in
social communities
Non-standard forms and ways
of speaking
Not very valued by the larger community
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Social Class and
Education
Important factors to determine social variety or dialect
Upper class and more educated
Lower class and less educated
Tend to use more
complicated forms
Tend to simplify they way of
speaking
Differ in form and
pronounciation
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Age and Gender
Are also factors that can determine
language variety or dialect
Age
Elders may speak a bit
different from youngers
Gender
Female speakers
Male speakers
Tend to use more
sofisticated language
Tend to use simpler ways of
speaking
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Ethnic Background
Important factor to determine dialects
People living in a place that is not where he/she was born has a special
way of speaking
Is easy to identify people’s belonging
place
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Different geographical areas may affect the language causing a variation of a language
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IdiolectA personal dialect
or way of speaking a language
Voice quality
Physical state
Help identifying an individual’s speech
features
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Style
FormalInformal
Spoken Written
A job interview
A talking with a friend
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Register
A variation according to
use in specific
situations
Legal Religious
Jargon
Technical vocabulary associated
with a special activity or
group