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LANGUAGE, SOCIETY AND CULTURE
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SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Society
Language
Anthropology
Sociology
Social PsychologySocial
dialects
Variety of the language used by
groups defined according
class
education
age
sex
Number of other social parameters
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PRESTIGE
Overt prestige
Covert prestige
Recognizes better or positively valued
ways of speaking in social communities
Non-standard forms and
expressions by certain subgroups
schoolboys
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SOCIAL CLASS AND EDUCATION
Higher socioeconomic
status
Lower class an less education
Labov: higher social class
pronounce /r/ more.
Labov: Lower class tent to pronounce the
sound /r/ fewer
In Reading Englan, Trudgill
found the opposite to this variable
H- dropping and the sound
/ ŋ/
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AGE AND GENDER
AGE
Across the grand-parents-
grandchild
GENDER
Female speaker
s
Male speaker
s
differences
Personal feelings
Non-personal topics. E.g. news and
sports
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ETHNIC BACKGROUD
Black English vernacular
(BEV)
Widespread social dialect
Social isolation such as discrimination or
segregation
African-American
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VARIATIONS ACCORDING THE USE OF LANGUAGE
idiolect Style Register Jargon
Personal dialect of each
speakers
Voice quality, physical state
From the very formal to
the very informal
It can also be found in written
language
Level of formality or
level of informality
legal religious
Depend on the situation
Technical vocabulary
associated with special activity
or group