variation in speech

LOCATING VARIATION IN SPEECH
1. SPEECH COMMUNITIES AND REPERTORIES
  1. sociolinguistics is concerned with language in situ and in vivo,alive in its geopraphical and social setting
    1. Speech community
      1. A speech community is all the people who speak a single language
      2. focus on the language practices of a group who do in fact have the opportunity to interact.
      3. To communicative with each other all using the same language
    2. Repertoire
      1. There isn't theorical limitation onthe location and size of a speech community.
      2. The speech repertoire may be divided functionally as well as spatially.
    3. Dialects
      1. The shudy of dialects played a major role in the historical linguistics
      2. Dialectology
        It's the searchfor spatially
        For each village or region that they study
        Their subjects are older people who
        lives in a location
        have had a minimun of education
STYLES,GENDER , AND SOCIAL CLASS
1. styles
  1. Geography provides a good beginning when we want to explain language variation
  2. audience design
  3. accomodation
2. specialized vaieties o registers and domains
  1. especially emarked by special set of vocabulary associated with a profession
  2. The goal was often to make to understand conversations
3. LANGUAGE AN GENDER
  1. The differences between the way males and females in grammatical festures
    1. Gender
      1. sometimes cause problems for speakers of language like english , where gender is marked mainky in prnouns
4. Slang and solidarity
  1. slang
    1. It's a espcial kinds of intimate or in gropu speech
  2. language associated with a specificf group
  3. underline la notion of accomodation mentioned above

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