MODULE 1:
WHAT DO SL STUDY?
1.1. What is a SL?
Language
Society
Explaing
Why we speak differently in dif social contexts
Provide
Indetify the social functions of L and the usage to convey so.mea
Infor about the way language works
So. relationships in a community
How pp convey and construct aspects of their social iden through their L
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1.2. Why do we say
the same thing in diff way?
Language provide a variety ways of saying the same thing
Linguistic variation can provide so.infor
1.3. What are the diff ways
we say thing?
Social influences on language choice
Vocab or word choice is one are of linguistic variation
Other levels of linguistic analysis
Sounds, word-struc (or morphology), grammar (or syntax),
as well as vocab
dialects
1.4. Social factors,
dimensions,
explanations
Social factors
Social dimensions
Explanations
The participants: who is speaking and who are they speaking to
The setting or so.contexts of the interaction: where are they speaking?
The topic: what is being talked about?
The funtion: why are they speaking?
A so.distance scale concerned with participant rela.
A status scale concerned with participant rela.
A formality scale relating to the setting or type of interaction.
2 functional scales relating to the purposes or topic of interaction.
Identify the linguistic variation
Identify the dif so. or nonling factors which lead speakers to use one form rather than another participants
look for patterns which will help to formulate an explanation.
move towards a theory which provides a motivated account of the way language is used in a community, and of the choices pp make when they use language.