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LANGUAGE, SOCIETY AND CULTURE

LANGUAGE, SOCIETY AND CULTURE. Society. SOCIOLINGUISTICS. Anthropology. Language. Sociology. Social Psychology. Social dialects. class. Variety of the language used by groups defined according. education. age. sex. Number of other social parameters. PRESTIGE. Covert prestige.

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LANGUAGE, SOCIETY AND CULTURE

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  1. LANGUAGE, SOCIETY AND CULTURE

  2. Society SOCIOLINGUISTICS Anthropology Language Sociology Social Psychology Social dialects class Variety of the language used by groups defined according education age sex Number of other social parameters

  3. PRESTIGE Covert prestige Overt prestige Non-standard forms and expressions by certain subgroups Recognizes better or positively valued ways of speaking in social communities schoolboys

  4. SOCIAL CLASS AND EDUCATION Lower class an less education Higher socioeconomic status Labov: Lower class tent to pronounce the sound /r/ fewer Labov: higher social class pronounce /r/ more. H- dropping and the sound / ŋ/ In Reading Englan, Trudgill found the opposite to this variable

  5. AGE AND GENDER AGE GENDER differences Female speakers Male speakers Across the grand-parents-grandchild Personal feelings Non-personal topics. E.g. news and sports

  6. ETHNIC BACKGROUD Widespread social dialect Black English vernacular (BEV) Social isolation such as discrimination or segregation African-American

  7. VARIATIONS ACCORDING THE USE OF LANGUAGE idiolect Style Register Jargon Personal dialect of each speakers From the very formal to the very informal Level of formality or level of informality Technical vocabulary associated with special activity or group Voice quality, physical state It can also be found in written language legal religious Depend on the situation

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