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Language and Social Variation Chapter 19 Language and Culture Chapter 20

Speech Community / Social Dialects Speech Community – a group of people who share the same linguistic variety; they share a set of sociolinguistic norms for language use. We may belong to several speech communities. Different speech communities may have different grammars, phonemes, preferences for words/morpheme What are some of your speech communities?

Speech Style/Style-Shifting *How do we know when to evoke formal or informal? *What type of interaction (with whom) warrants one speech style or the other? *Would you consider “foreigner talk” or “caregiver speech” as SPEECH STYLES?

Social Variation Each person has his/her own individual way of speaking called an idiolect. Our idiolect will tend to sound like others who have similar education, socio- economic status as us. Social marker – a particular linguistic feature that MARKS you as being part of a particular social group.

Register, Jargon, and Slang A register contains jargon. Different registers are used in different contexts: situational, occupational, or topical (p. 210-211) What are some different social registers of English? What jargon is used in those registers? Slang is colloquial speech. Slang varies through different generations.

African American Vernacular English VERNACULAR=SOCIAL DIALECT Your book talks about the GRAMMAR of a common vernacular in the USA, AAVE (p. 213-214). Below are some linguistic features of AAVE. Give and example of each of these features. Why is this information about AAVE important? *reduction of final consonant clusters *pronunciation of initial dental consonants as alveolar stops *possessive -‘s,3rd person singular -s, and often the plural -s omitted *double-negative construction *frequent absence of ‘to be’ forms *substitution of ‘to be’ auxiliary form with only ‘be’ or ‘bin’

Language & Culture Chapter 20

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Poststructuralism and Language What do you think about this statement? If one is not able to talk about one’s experience(s), then the experience(s) didn’t happen.

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