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Sociolinguistics is the study of language in society, language variation and language change. It examines the linguistic indicators of culture and power. Some key terms include idiolect, which refers to the language characteristics of an individual, and sociolect, which refers to the language used by a social group. Other terms are standardization, which promotes a language variety as standard; stigmatization, which treats non-standard varieties as poor; and dialect and accent, which refer to patterns of words, grammar and pronunciation used by social groups.

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Scopes of Sociolinguistics PDF

Sociolinguistics is the study of language in society, language variation and language change. It examines the linguistic indicators of culture and power. Some key terms include idiolect, which refers to the language characteristics of an individual, and sociolect, which refers to the language used by a social group. Other terms are standardization, which promotes a language variety as standard; stigmatization, which treats non-standard varieties as poor; and dialect and accent, which refer to patterns of words, grammar and pronunciation used by social groups.

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Scopes of Sociolinguistics

Carla SP

Sociolinguistics
The study of language in society The study of the linguistic indicators of culture and power The study of language variation and language change

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2. Idiolect: Characteristic of an individual speaker of a language. 3. Sociolect: Characteristic of a group of speakers of a language.

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4. Standardization: A process whereby a variety of a particular language is taken up and promoted as the standard form. e.g. suggesting its use in the classroom, treating it as good and proper, etc. Codification: An extension of standardization which becomes a prominent feature of standard form. Ex: existence of grammar books and dictionaries, etc.

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6. Stigmatization: A process where non standard forms of a language are treated as poor, incorrect varieties. 7. Language Loyalty: Speakers attitude toward their own language (variety) in order to preserve the variations in the face of the standardized form.

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8. Dialect: Characteristic patterns of words and word order (lexico grammar) which are used by a group of speakers; it refers just to the form of the lexico grammar of the variation as it could be written down. Accent: Pattern of pronunciation used by a group of speakers

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9. Speech Communities: A group of people sharing the same way of speaking, which is defined by other non linguistic means: nationality, age range, gender, town or city population, political allegiance, etc.

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