The Study of Language
The study of language
By: ...
Semester: ..;
Group: ..
2012/2013
Plan:
✓ Introduction.
✓ Varieties of language.
✓ Language, culture and thought.
✓ Speech as social interaction.
✓ The quantitative study of speech.
Introduction:
Sociolinguistics is a term including the aspects of linguistics applied toward the connections between language and society, and the way we use it in different social situations. It ranges from the study of the wide variety of dialects across a given region down to the analysis between the way men and women speak to one another. Sociolinguistics often shows us the humorous realities of human speech and how a dialect of a given language can often describe the age, sex, and social class of the speaker; it codes the social function of a language.
Any discussion of relationship between language and society, or of the various functions of language in society, should begin with some attempt to define each of these terms. Let us say that a society is any group of people who are drawn together for a certain purpose or purposes. The language is what the members of a particular society speak. Sometimes a society may be plurilingual; that is, many speakers may use more than language, however we define a language.
Varieties of language:
In sociolinguistics a variety, also called lect, is a specific form of language or language cluster. This may include languages, dialects, accents, registers, styles or other sociolinguistic variation, as well as the standard variety itself. “Variety” avoids the terms language, which many people associate only with
By: ...
Semester: ..;
Group: ..
2012/2013
Plan:
✓ Introduction.
✓ Varieties of language.
✓ Language, culture and thought.
✓ Speech as social interaction.
✓ The quantitative study of speech.
Introduction:
Sociolinguistics is a term including the aspects of linguistics applied toward the connections between language and society, and the way we use it in different social situations. It ranges from the study of the wide variety of dialects across a given region down to the analysis between the way men and women speak to one another. Sociolinguistics often shows us the humorous realities of human speech and how a dialect of a given language can often describe the age, sex, and social class of the speaker; it codes the social function of a language.
Any discussion of relationship between language and society, or of the various functions of language in society, should begin with some attempt to define each of these terms. Let us say that a society is any group of people who are drawn together for a certain purpose or purposes. The language is what the members of a particular society speak. Sometimes a society may be plurilingual; that is, many speakers may use more than language, however we define a language.
Varieties of language:
In sociolinguistics a variety, also called lect, is a specific form of language or language cluster. This may include languages, dialects, accents, registers, styles or other sociolinguistic variation, as well as the standard variety itself. “Variety” avoids the terms language, which many people associate only with