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Sociolinguistic variables of the English language, Student: Zugeidy Arenas…
Sociolinguistic variables of the English language
Scientific field that falls within the scope of linguistics and sociology. It is defined as the study of the influence of society on language, including cultural norms, expectations and the context in which speakers move.
Types of sociolinguistic variation
Phonetic-phonological variation
Since it is not affected by meaning problems, phonological variation was the first to be analyzed. This is very important because it is the easiest to study.
Syntactic Variation
The nature of syntactic variation is not analogous to phonological variation for the following reasons:
There is less syntactic variation than phonological variation in languages.
The infrequency with which it is possible to count on a context of occurrence and the difficulty of obtaining examples of the use of both variants make syntactic variation more difficult to measure or quantify.
Speech variation
It is difficult to establish where lexical or morphological variation ends and discourse variation begins. The change of referent, shift or emphasis are some discourse variables.
Discourse variables
Morphologic type
Those affecting morphology, especially grammar, whose variation does not usually involve the pragmatic and syntactic levels.
Functional type
These are those that influence syntax and, partially, morphology. These are not usually related to other semantic factors, they are usually determined by geographical, sociolinguistic, historical and stylistic factors.
Category type
These are those that sometimes affect morphological elements and, almost always, syntactic elements, whose variation usually involves the semantic and pragmatic levels.
Positional type
Intonation is usually involved in all of them, and herein lies their importance.
Lexical Variation
The study of lexical variation seeks to explain the alternation in the use of lexical forms under certain linguistic and extralinguistic conditions.
Student: Zugeidy Arenas
Semester 4
CI. 28.376637