Language in Society/Society in Language
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This document discusses how language varies based on social and geographical factors. It explores differences in dialect, accent, vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation between varieties of English like British English, American English, and Australian English. Language variation exists across registers that are conditioned by their uses, like legal or religious registers, and between formal and informal styles of speech. Communities that share linguistic norms and rules for language use are called speech communities, and a speaker's communicative competence involves their underlying knowledge of a language's rules and how to use them.
Language in Society/Society in Language
- 1. Language in Society/ Society in Language by Camila Cuevas Araneda
- 2. Language Dialect Accent Political, cultural, social Geographical and The way of pronouncing a and psychological historical connotations. variety. connotations
- 3. Language Differences Vocabulary Accent Pronounciation English British American Australian
- 4. ‘GO’ AmE: /goʊ/ Pronounciation ‘GO’ BrE: /gəʊ/ AmE: ‘Had gotten’ Dialect Grammar BrE: ‘Had got’ AmE: Evelator Vocabulary BrE: Lift
- 5. Varieties Register of law. Variation of Register languageconditioned by uses. Register of religion. Formal Vocabulary Style Syntax Pronounciation Informal
- 6. Speech communities and communicative competence Speech Communicative communities competence • Social group who • Speaker’s underlying share a set of norms knowledge of the and rules for the use rules of grammar of the (phonology, grammar language, even if , lexicon and they do not share semantics) and rules the same language. for their use.