[初三英语]lecture 11 English andSociety.ppt

Sociolinguistics Sociolinguistics…. The relationship between language and society. The scope of sociolinguistics…. Sociolinguistics 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. 舂舂 碓 棒槌 臼jiù Dialect It is not the language It is not even a language It is one dialect amongst many Dialect—lazy? Ungrammatical? People prejudice against certain accent. Standard English  Standard English- very difficult to define. Generally written, regularized and codified. Generally recognized as prestigious in a community. Used by 15% of the British people. RP spoken by 3% of the British people Standard English is not a language Standard English is not a style Standard English is not an accent Standard English is not a register Standard dialect. Queen’s English and BBC English Public school accent well spoken Educated speech Oxford English Talking proper upper-class accent Posh accent RP regional accents Intelligence friendliness Integrity approachability trustworthiness High quality Being individual solidarity Just as regional dialect is associated with separation caused by physical conditions, social dialect has to do with separation brought about by different social conditions. Ethnic dialect Typical features of a Jamaican mesolect(Trudghill Hannah 1994:115-116) This man brother He li