1.
Amir-Hazsann B. Aguam
BAELS-3B
Language ,
Society , and
Culture

2.
01
• The way you speak provides
you with some information
about your social context or
your region.
• But there are some other
variations.

3.
 A speech community is a group of people that share a
set of norms, rules, and expectations regarding the use
of language.
 Investigating language from this perspective is
Sociolinguistics.

4.
Sociolinguistics deals with the
interrelationships between language
and society.

5.
 Social Dialects are the result of the taking into
account that we are able to make studies on
social dialects.

6.
Interaction
between social
values and
language we
recognize.
01
Over prestige:
Positive valued
ways of speaking in
social community.
02
Covert prestige:
Hidden positive
values.
03

7.
Social Class and Education
There are variations and
prejudices according to social
class and educational level.

8.
Age and Gender
Variation according to age is possible
to be found among parents and their
children for example. But it is most
noticeable across the grandparents-
grandchild time spand.

9.
• Among male and female speakers
there are some other variations.
Women and men do not use
language the same way.
For example, women tend to use
more formal style, ordinarily.
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10.
Ethnical Background
One of the social varieties is according to
ethnical background. A clear example of this
is the one used by the African-Americans
known as Black English Vernacular (BEV).

11.
Style Register
According to the style of register
used it goes from the informal to
very formal.
These differences can also be found in written
language, say business letters versus letters to
friend.
Written language will always be more
formal than spoken.

12.
Jargon:
• Technical vocabulary
associated with a special
activity or group.

13.
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