“Language, society and culture”

Yule, G (1996) The study of languageUK, Cambridge University Press

By Ingrid Bello A

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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

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Positively valued ways of speaking

in social communities

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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

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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