1. Language in Society/
Society in Language
by Camila Cuevas Araneda

2. Language Dialect Accent
Political, cultural, social
Geographical and The way of pronouncing a
and psychological
historical connotations. variety.
connotations

3. Language
Differences Vocabulary Accent Pronounciation
English British American Australian

4. ‘GO’ AmE:
/goʊ/
Pronounciation
‘GO’ BrE:
/gəʊ/
AmE:
‘Had gotten’
Dialect Grammar
BrE:
‘Had got’
AmE:
Evelator
Vocabulary
BrE:
Lift

5. Varieties
Register of law.
Variation of
Register languageconditioned
by uses.
Register of religion.
Formal Vocabulary
Style Syntax
Pronounciation
Informal

6. Speech communities and
communicative competence
Speech Communicative
communities competence
• Social group who • Speaker’s underlying
share a set of norms knowledge of the
and rules for the use rules of grammar
of the (phonology, grammar
language, even if , lexicon and
they do not share semantics) and rules
the same language. for their use.