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“Language, society and culture”
Yule, G (1996) The study of languageUK, Cambridge University Press
By Ingrid Bello A
How the language is influenced by society and
culture?…
Speak
Regional accent or
dialect Social factor
But alsoNot only
How to
Is influenced
Scientific discipline researching the language that is actual y
used by native speaker or foreigners
It`s a branch of linguistics which investigates the individual and social
variation of language
It`s concentrates on variations
arising from social various factors
It`s study of language in social contexts such as social groups or
speech communicativesIt has to do
with the inter-
relationships between language
and society
It has strong
connections to
anthropology
varieties of language used by groups defined
according to class,
education, age, sex,
and a number of
other social parameters
Overt prestige:
Positively valued ways of speaking
in social communities
Covert prestige:non-standard
forms and expressions by
certain sub-groupsIn
tera
ctio
n
betw
een
soci
al v
alues
and
langu
age
use
Fact
ors in
the
inve
stig
atio
n of
soci
al d
iale
cts
Not only the education influences in dialects surveys for example people who have left
their education system tend to adopt forms
which are not frequenty in the
speech but also social class is a issue such as
in occupation and socio-economic status,
the most common differences are in
pronunciation
Variation according to age is most
noticeable across both of them, time
span
Variation according to gender:
Female tend to use more prestigious
forms and speak their personal feelings and male tend to use with
the same general social background , non-personal topics
Examples: (M)I done it, it growed and he ain`t / (F) I did it, it grew and he isn`t
Examples: (G) icebox, wireless, rules, sucks /(Y) we`re getting ready, he`s like, let`s go
Any so
ciety
, dife
rence
s
in sp
eech
may
com
e
abou
t bec
ause
of
differ
ent e
thnic
backg
round.
The speech of recent immigrants, and often of their children, will contain
identifying features
Social point of view:Its critized by educators as
“bad speech” (BEV) Examples:
absence of the copula “they mine” “You crazy”Use double negative
constructions “he don`t know nothing”
Each person used a personal dialect of
individual speaker of language and it`s called
idiolect
A idiolect is the linguistic system of one person
differing in some details from of other speakers of
the same dialect of language
Factors: Voice qualityPhysical stateSocial factors
These contribute to the identifying features in an individual`s speech
Register It`s according formal level language and according to the situation, it`s determined by relation of speakers
E.G “esta noche iré al culto”
Reference to Evangelical peopleStyle It could be very informal or formal, depend on the
situation
E.G “a interview for get a job” “a football game”
JargonTechnical vocabulary associated with a special activity or group
E.G “The Snodgrass MuffBleeders, bloops, and squibs
Play –by-play Reference to baseball