and/or social) and characteristic linguistic features. modern dialectology or sociolinguistics is used generally for the study of the relationship between language and society. Traditional and modern dialectology study dialects with a difference in scientific focus: Traditional Dialectology | Modern Dialectology | Since 19th century | Since 1960s | Geographical Sociolinguistics | Sociological Sociolinguistics | Focus on rural areas | Focus on urban areas | Focus on regional variation/varieties:
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Communicative Competence and English as an International Language Language is used for expressing our thoughts ‚ and for verbal thinking‚ problem-solving‚ and creative writing‚ but it is used essentially for communication. What makes it difficult to grasp the language user’s systems of representation for communication with others is the fact that the capability of individuals to interact with others through language is a unique quality and at the same time a universal human quality. The successful
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I. sociolinguistics: Sociolinguistics is the study of patterns and variations in language within a society or community. In other words‚ it is the study of language in relation to social factors (e.g.‚ social class‚ region‚ age‚ sex‚ national identity‚ rank). We can distinguish the speaker from his speaking (e.g.‚ the Scottish pronounce the phoneme /r/ in words like car). Other sociolinguists focus on what happens when speakers of different languages interact. The goal of sociolinguistics is to
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The book Muiris Ó Laoire (2004) reviewed is entitled Sociolinguistics: A resource book for students (Stockwell‚ 2002). The overall structure of this review is conventional‚ starting with a brief introduction‚ then a comprehensive summary‚ and finally some evaluative comments. However‚ there is no conclusion section in this review‚ which makes it a bit unconventional. The whole review adopts present tense consistently throughout with scattered inversions and unreal conditionals to mitigate the critisim
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2. The notion of communicative competence‚ origins‚ communicative competence vs. linguistic competence‚ components of communicative competence Communicative competence – the ability to understand and use language effectively to communicate in authentic social and school environments. The idea was originally derived from Chomsky’s distinction between competence (shared knowledge of ideal speaker-listener set in a completely homogenous speech community) and performance (process of applying underlying
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Communicative Competence 1. Grammatical competence 2. Sociolinguistic competence 3. strategic competence 4. discourse competence 1. Grammatical competence Knowledge that is responsible for producing a structurally comprehensible utterance (related to formal aspects of language) Including grammar‚ vocabulary‚ pronunciation‚ spelling‚ morphology‚ syntax and semantics Comparable with Chomsky’s linguistic competence 2. Sociolinguistic competence Knowledge that enables us to use the sociocultural
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Title: An Analysis of the Language Style Used in “two fast and too furious” film. Fields: sociolinguistics A. Background of the Study Too fast and too furious film is one of the most amazing films in 2003 year. This film was directed by John singleton. He is a famous director in the world. He had been directing many films. This film was become a winner by many awards held in Hollywood‚ such as BMI film music award in 2004‚ breakthrough male performance 2003‚ won teen choice award‚ golden
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年级 ： 2007级 研究方向 ： 商务翻译研究 课程名称 ： 语言学理论 任课老师 ：莫爱屏教授 论文提交日期 ： 2008/01/08 Abstract: This paper aims to probe into the study of language and dialect in the field of sociolinguistics. Part 1 is a general introduction to the issues being covered in the paper. Part 2 centers on the analysis of certain criteria that probably could be applied as to differentiate a language from a dialect. Part 3 and Part 4 introduce two distinguished
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2006 TURNING TO ORWELL TO UNDERSTAND ORWELL’S PROBLEM: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC VIEW Pedro Luis Luchini luchini@copetel.com.ar Adolfo Martín García infiniteplayer@hotmail.com Abstract ________________ Drawing on the works of groundbreaking linguists and sociolinguists of the likes of Noam Chomsky‚ Ferdinand de Saussure and Benjamin Lee Whorf‚ this paper traces the origins of Orwell’s Problem by depicting the fictional sociolinguistic scenario presented in the classic Nineteen Eightyfour. A syntactic
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and are more sensitive than man to the prestige pattern” (Labov 1972a :243) Generally speaking sociolinguistic studies include male and female ‚ there are evidence show that the conformity of linguistic of women use less stigmatized and non-standard than man. The knowledge bases examines a widely instantiated sociolinguistic generalization concerns the careful behavior of women with stable sociolinguistic variables. We can explore the prestige pattern by the women toward the speech and the attitude
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