2. SOCIOLINGUISTICS
what is it?
Language
Sociolinguistics makes a connection between
Society
and
the manner we use it (language) in different social events in daily life .
3. Language Variation
a) Internal Variation ?
a property that languages have to express the
same meaning in different ways
b) Language Variety ?
broad term that is used to distinguish between
OR
Two different languages two varieties of the same language
4. c) Dialect misunderstood term
means
The collection of phonetic phonological, syntactic, morphological and
semantic attributes that make the difference amongst groups of
speakers
linguists definition
d) Accent refers to
phonological variation or variation in pronunciation
5. e) Speech communities is
a group of people that speak a particular and common dialect
factors that influence in the existence of speech communities
Socio-economic ethnicity
status
sex
geographical location
6. Some questions:
Do women talk more than men?
answer
... NO . . .
WHY?
Because it is not culturally acceptable
BUT
Men remain silent when talking about emotional situations
7. Do men and women speak differently?
it is
sometimes a stereotypical question
but
there are some languages in which is common to see
different patters related to the gender of the person who
talk and the vocabulary the person use
