Varieties in Speech and Writing Flashcards
Why do languages vary?
- People are members of different speech communities
- Globalization- integration of humanity
- Colonization
- Diversity
- Diaspora- a scattered population
- ICT and Media
- Gender
- Culture
Sociolinguistic definition by ______________ that it is an attempt to find correlations between social
structure and linguistic structure and to observe
any changes that occur
Gumpers
Sociolinguistic definition by ______________ that it is the study of the social uses of language, and
the most productive studies in the four decades
of sociolinguistic research have emanated from
determining the social evaluation of linguistic
variants
Chambers
Speech Community definition by ____________ that it refer to a
group of people who interact by means of speech.
Bloomfield
Speech Community definition by ____________ that it is a community sharing rules for the
conduct and interpretation of speech, and rules for the
interpretation of at least one linguistic variety.
Hyme
________________ also defined speech community as an activity
characterized by frequent interaction using a mutually
intelligible body of verbal signs. According to him, the
speech varieties employed within a speech community
are formalized as a system
Gumperz
used for personal dialect of each individual speaker
Idiolect
Divided from the more formal to the more informal
Style
It is what type of language you see depending on the situation you are
Register
It is the language used among people who have a special activity or group
Jargon
he proposed a framework “SPEAKING”
Dell Hymes
SPEAKING?
Setting, Participants, Ends, Act Sequence, Key, Instrumentalities, Norms, Genre
setting refers to?
time and place
participants refers to?
people involved
ends refers to?
outcomes and goals
Act sequence refers to?
sequence, content, form, or what are you going to say
Key refers to?
own manner of how you say things
Instrumentalities refers to
channel, medium, or methd
Norms refers to?
behaviors
Genre refers to the type of ?
type of utterance
It is the language used in considering the participants
Language Register
is an essential social skill that
provides flexibility and demonstrates competence in
speech and appropriate social norms
Register
who mentioned Register is an essential social skill that
provides flexibility and demonstrates competence in
speech and appropriate social norms
Jennifer Young
What are the types of registers?
Frozen/Static
Formal
Consultative/Professional
Casual
Intimate
The language does not change
Frozen/Static
This is used in professional, academic, or ceremonial and it uses standard english.
Formal
It is semi-formal when there is a need for clear understanding
Consultative/Professional
This is the language between friends
Casual
Shared between close friends, family and partners.
Intimate
world-wide integration of humanity
Globalization
erases
territorial boundaries between
countries therefore we become
multiculturalists – persons
respectful of and engaged with
people from distinctly different
cultures.
Digital Technology
a scattered population whose origin lies in a separate geologic scale
Diaspora
language that develop when people need to communicate without a shared language
Pidgins and Creoles
Informal ways of speaking
Slang/Colloquial
-more informal
-used by certain groups
Slang
used in everyday speech by ordinary people
Colloquial
