Defintiions Flashcards
Sociolinguists
Language in relation to social factors
Speech community
Group of people sharing a common language or dialect
Covert prestige
Status of a speech style or feature as having positive value but which is ‘hidden’ or not valued similarly among the large community.
Overt prestige
Status generally recognised as better or more positively valued in the larger community.
Closed network
Personal contacts all know each other
Open network
Contacts tend not to know each other
Hedging
Phrases like “sort of”, “kind of”, “it seems like”.
Dominance model
Perspective proposed by linguists who believe men and women speak differently
Co-operative overlap
Affirming/supportive interruption
Competitive overlap
Attempt to take control of conversation
Accent
Pronunciation of words which may be specific to a particular region
Dialect
Vocabulary and grammar which may be specific to a particular region
Non-standard forms
Forms diverging from standard English
E.g. Regional dialects
Discourse community
Social group with a common set of goals or mechanisms of inter communication which it uses to pursue its aims.
Can be very large or small.
Discourse markers
Words like
And, so, but, then
Show how different parts of the discourse relate to one another, often mark conversation shift or change in topic
