Language And Occuption

Question 1

Occupational sociolect

Answer 1

Distinctive language used by particular occupational groups.

Found in spoken and written forms.

Question 2

Criticisms of occupational sociolect

Answer 2

Can be see as elitist (excludes those who don’t understand).

Question 3

Advantages of occupational sociolect

Answer 3

• Develops to fit the groups specific purposes.
• Specialists in a job use it to communicate quickly and precisely with other specialists in the same job. You wouldn’t necessarily expect non-specialists to understand it.

Question 4

Occupational jargon

Answer 4

Specialist terms used in specific jobs and which can refer to:
Concepts
Processes
Conditions
Roles
Objects

Question 5

What grammatical features should you focus on in occupational language.

Answer 5

Word classes
Syntax
Sentence functions

Question 6

What phonological features of occupational language are often used and where?

Answer 6

Repetition
Alliteration
Rhyme
Phonological patterning
When talking to large groups

Question 7

What are some features of Teachers language when addressing classes?

Answer 7

Prosodic

Raising their voice or saying shhh

Question 8

What are the 4 main functions of occupation discourse depending on context?

Answer 8

Informative
Persuasive
Instructional
Transactional

Question 9

What’s important about the structure occupation discourse can take?

Answer 9

Often the order can be similar for specific discourses and are separated distinctly by discourse markers - e.g scientific reports follow a specific structure: title, intro, method, findings, conclusion, evaluation.

Question 10

Sociolect

Answer 10

A language style associated with a particular social group