Language, Society And Culture

SOCIOLINGUISTIC S 

It deals with the inter – relationships between language and society.

SOCIAL DIALECTS.

SOCIAL CLASS AND EDUCATION

AGE ,GENDER & ETHNIC BACKGROUND Age

Gender

Ethnic Background

IDIOLECT 

It is used for personal dialect of each individual speaker of a language.

STYLE, REGISTER AND JARGON

Style 

Very formal: Looking for a job ○ Excuse me. Is the manager in his office?

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Very informal: Talking to a friend about other friend ○ Hey, is that lazy dog still in bed? I gotta see him

about something.

Jargon 

It is defined as the technical vocabulary associated with a special activity or group.

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It helps to connect those who see themselves as “insiders” in some way and to exclude “outsiders”.

DIGLOSSIA ○ To say the right thing to the right person at the

right moment. 

Describe a situation in which two different varieties of languages co–exist in a speech community.

 The distinct range of social functions.

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE