Introduction
The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community
Society
It is a subvariety of a single language. It can differ not only in the pronunciation but also words, sentence structure and meaning
Dialect
It took shape first and spread across the world.
Inner Circle
Social positions that society assigns to its members
Status
socially constructed identity
Gender
The study of how language and social factors interact.
Sociolinguistics
It means you are able to put your point across. It also means what the speaker knows about the language and what they actually come out with.
Communicative competence
Areas in which English is historically important as a result of colonial history and plays a large role in public life but is not the first language
Outer Circle
A variable that is socially marked, very noticeable and often discussed.
Stereotype
The language declared the language of a particular region or country as a result of legislation.
Official Language
A way of grouping people by traits that are fixed by class, gender, or ethnicity.
social categories
A person whom you are speaking with.
Interlocutor
They are developed with the need of people, they are not spoken as the first language and used in a limited social setting.
Pidgin
a distinction only in pronunciation
Accent
It makes communication more effective for ingroup members and can also exclude nonmembers of a group from participation or understanding.
Jargon
How each of us, as social beings adapt our language to fit into society.
Social relationships
Words that are usually associated with young speakers and tend to be short-lived
Slang
A language variety that develops out of pidgin. Unlike pidgin, this is spoken as a first language of some community or group of speakers and can be used by the entire range of social setting.
Creole
A subset of a language used by a particular social group or class.
Sociolect
An examination of the structure of a conversation looking for linguistic regularities.
Discourse analysis
It is when the speaker's choice is completely unpredictable.
free variation
Group of people in habitual contact, who share a language variety and social conventions.
Speech Community
Ability to change/move social classes
Social Mobility
It retains the association with the original ethnic group.
Ethnolect
People are expected to adhere to certain behaviors/ideals in language use tied to their gender and punished when they don’t
Gender Policing