Introduction
A group of people in habitual contact who share language variety and social convention.
What is Speech Community?
It is a subvariety of a single language.It can differ not only in the pronunciation but also words, sentence structure and meaning
What is a dialect?
It took shape first and spread across the world.
Inner Circle
Social positions that society assigns to its members
Status
A socially constructed identity rather than a biological category
Gender
The study of how language and social factors interact.
What is 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.
What are 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
The ability to move between social classed often determined by how defined class roles are in a particular culture.
Social Mobility
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.
What are 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 or unpredictable.
What is a free variation?
People speaking a different variety of language that can understand each other.
Mutual Intelligibility
Areas where English does not have an official role but is still widely spoken as a foreign language or as a language of communications.
Expanding Circle
It retains the association with the original ethnic group.
Ethnolect
A group of speech act or interactions
Speech Event