2. We as a part of a particular society or
community have distinctive ways of express
ourselves.
Group of
people
Same
rules
Same
norms
Same
expectations
4. The connections made before are necessary to describe
what is called “Social Dialects” which are defined
according to:
Social class
and education
In some places the differences between higger and lower
class are defined according to the pronunciation of some
letters, like the “r” or “n”.
A person who studies a lot, either in college or university,
will speak with more features of written language.
Age and gender Older people do not use the same expressions as
younger people, because the language is changing day by
day.
Men and women are focussed on differents points when
they talk, while men are more objective and concrete,
women are more subjective and sensitive.
Ethnic background When a group within a society undergoes some form of
social isolation, the accompanying problem, from a social
point of view, is that the resulting variety of speech may be
stigmatized as “bad speech.”
5. Idiolect It is used for the personal dialect of each
individual speaker of a language. From the
perspective of the social study of language,
you are, in many respects, what you say.
Style The style is divided from the more formal to
the more informal speech, and it is
depending on the listener, if it is your boss or
our friend for example.
Register It is what type of language you use
depending on the situation you are. It is
directly related with the style.
Jargon It is the language used among people who
have a special activity or group.
6. All in all the way in which the people speak,
concerns with a lot of factors which could be
very different among cultures, and that is why
there are many speech communities.
