Language in Society/Society in Language

by Camila Cuevas Araneda

Language

Geographical and historical connotations.

Dialect

Political, cultural, social and

psychological connotations

Accent

The way of pronouncing a

variety.

English

Differences

Language

Vocabulary Accent

British American Australian

Pronounciation

Dialect

Pronounciation

‘GO’ AmE: /goʊ/

‘GO’ BrE: /gəʊ/

Grammar

AmE:‘Had gotten’

BrE:‘Had got’

Vocabulary

AmE:Evelator

BrE: Lift

RegisterVariation of

languageconditioned by uses.

Register of law.

Register of religion.

Style

Formal Vocabulary

Syntax

InformalPronounciation

Varieties

Speech communities

• Social group who share a set of norms and rules for the use of the language, even if they do not share the same language.

Communicative

competence• Speaker’s

underlying knowledge of the rules of grammar (phonology, grammar, lexicon and semantics) and rules for their use.

Speech communities and communicative competence