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Romaine (2000) Ch.1 Language in Society, Language in society, an…
Romaine (2000) Ch.1 Language in Society, Language in society, an introduction to Sociolinguistics, ,pp. 1-31, (2nd ed) Oxford University Press, UK.
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Dialect continuum connects a series of historically related varieties that differ from one another with respect to one or more features.
Degree of mutual intelligibility is greatly affected by the extent of social and other contact between the groups concerned as well as their attitudes to one another.
Orthographic differences now disguise what is a similar pronunciation and make the languages look more different in their written form than they are when spoken.
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The term ‘language’ is employed for a variety that is autonomous, together with all those varieties that are heteronymous upon it.
Heteronomy and autonomy reflect political and cultural rather than purely linguistic factors, they can change.
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It involves consideration of the situation or context of use, the purpose, subject matter, and content of the message, and the relationship between participants.
A speech community is a group of people who do not necessarily share the same language, but share a set of norms and rules for the use of language.
Communicative Competence is used to refer to a speaker’s underlying knowledge of the rules of grammar (understood in the widest sense to include phonology, grammar, lexicon, and semantics) and rules for their use in socially appropriate circumstances.
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