01 sociolinguistic

01 sociolinguistic

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  Topic : Sociolinguistics. • Name : Makwana Ankita m. • Paper No :12 • Roll No :1 • Year :2014-15 • Semester : 3 • Guidance : by Department of English.
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  Sociolinguistics? • Useof language in society. • Sociolinguistic examines the relationship between language use and the social world, particularly how language operates within and created social structures. • Sociolinguistic studies have looked at speech communication based on social categories such as age, gender, profession…….
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  Sub categories Sociolinguistic Micro-sociolinguistic Macro-sociolinguistic
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  What is micro-sociolinguistic? • Micro-sociolinguistic refer to research with a linguistic slat on dialect and stylistic/ variation. • According to Coulmas Sociolinguistic as ‘ social dimensions of language’.
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  What is macro-sociolinguistic? • Macro-linguistics looks at the behaviors of entire speech communication exploring issues such as why immigrant communities retain their native languages in some contexts but not in other. • According to Coulmas ….. • ‘ linguistic dimensions of society’ • It is a part of L2(Second language)
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  Research • Researchin sociolinguistic describes three subcategories. Language variation Language in contact Linguistic relativity
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  Language variation •How does a language change. • Language variation research has focused increasingly on issues of social context. • Freeman and McElhinny survey the interaction of culture and gender with respect to politeness.. • In society where politeness is normatively valued or seen as a skill, or where acquisition of politeness is not an automatic part of language learning but requires additional training , men tend to be understand as a more polite, and women are understood as impolite or too polite.
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  Linguistic Relativity •Cross-cultural miscommunication. • For e.g..Different between European culture and Indian culture. • Thomas distinguishes between what she calls pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic failure. In the former, speakers fail to convey their meaning because the message’s pragmatic force is missunderstood. • For e.g.. The formulaic expression ‘How are You’? In English generally means little more than ‘Hello’ • Sociopragmatic failure occurs when one does not know what to say whom.
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  Language in Contact • In a diglossic situation two language or variation of a language exist side by side, essentially in complementary distribution. • One is used for Formal situation and other Informal contexts. • Formal situation =It is a high-prestige variety(H). • For e.g. Education, religion. • Informal contexts= Frequently the vernacular and native language/variety is considered low(L)
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  Practice 1)Language variation • Language teacher are called upon to make conscious decisions concerning which varieties of English and which language strategies they bring into the classroom.
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  2)Linguistic Relativity. •The different aspects of language comparison linguistic structure and phonetics. • Language learner must go beyond grammatical competence it they are successful users of a language. • Gohen , he recommends five steps. • Assessment of student’s sociolinguistic awareness; presentation and discussion of dialogues focusing on sociocultural factors affecting speech acts; evaluation of situation; role play; feedback and discussion.
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  3).Language contact •Which is present form of language? • How it is spoken? • Pratt uses the term Contact Zones for classroom and other ‘social spaces where culture meet, clash, and grapple with each other. • Where English is used primarily with non-native speakers-or native speakers of local varieties of English-teachers need to decide which variety or varieties of English will be taught.
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  Current and futuretrends and directions • Some of the most exciting new work explores the relationship between identity and language learning. • Much of thinking has been influenced by • post-structuralist critiques of traditionally conceived social categories. • For e.g.., in place of fixed, apriori notion of class an gender, post-structuralists argue that social categories are fluid, they are created or recreated at the moment of speech through speech..
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  Conclusion • Uselanguage in society. • How language use in the society. • Society is deeply connected with language.