variation in speech

variation in speech

1. LOCATING VARIATION IN SPEECH

   • SPEECH COMMUNITIES AND REPERTORIES
     • sociolinguistics is concerned with language in situ and in vivo,alive in its geopraphical and social setting
       • Speech community
         • A speech community is all the people who speak a single language
         • focus on the language practices of a group who do in fact have the opportunity to interact.
         • To communicative with each other all using the same language
       • Repertoire
         • There isn't theorical limitation onthe location and size of a speech community.
         • The speech repertoire may be divided functionally as well as spatially.
       • Dialects
         • • The shudy of dialects played a major role in the historical linguistics
         • 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

2. STYLES,GENDER , AND SOCIAL CLASS

   • styles
     • Geography provides a good beginning when we want to explain language variation
     • audience design
     • accomodation
   • specialized vaieties o registers and domains
     • especially emarked by special set of vocabulary associated with a profession
     • The goal was often to make to understand conversations
   • LANGUAGE AN GENDER
     • The differences between the way males and females in grammatical festures
       • Gender
         • sometimes cause problems for speakers of language like english , where gender is marked mainky in prnouns
   • Slang and solidarity
     • slang
       • It's a espcial kinds of intimate or in gropu speech
     • language associated with a specificf group
     • underline la notion of accomodation mentioned above

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