Introduction
what is speech community?
A group of people who share the same rules and patterns for what to say, when to say and how to say in a particular society.
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?
Social positions that society assigns to its members
Status
A socially constructed identity rather than a biological category
Gender
speaking model was inititated by ..
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What is Sociolinguistics?
The study of how language and social factors interact. It studies language in relation to society
Words that are usually associated with young speakers and tend to be short-lived
slangs
adding more and more variations to someone`s speech is usually associated with....
and everyone develop a distinct.... to be used while speaking to anyone.
Style
The language declared the language of a particular region or country as a result of legislation.
Official Language
S and P stand for...
setting and participants
What are the social factors that can account for linguistics variation?
individual`s pronounciation, which is usually associated with their geographical location, ethnicity or social class.
Accent
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
explain what is speech event and speech act?
speech event takes place within a speech situtation and is composed of one or more speech acts.
for example: a joke might be a speech at that is a part of conversation(speech event) which takes place at a party
wha are social relationships?
How each of us, as social beings adapt our language to fit into society.re social relationships?
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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
explain model of speaking
S-setting
p-participants
e-ends=purpose
a-act sequence
k-key=manner or spririt
i-instruments=forms of speech
n-norms
g-genre
What are examples of social variation?
People from different places clearly speak differently, but even within the same small community, people might speak differently according to their age, gender, ethnicity and social or educational background
a variety of language used by a specifi ethnic group. AAVE is a goo example of it.
ethnolect
It retains the association with the original ethnic group.
Ethnolect
A group of speech act or interactions
Speech Event
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