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    04/11/2019

    UNIT 3.
    DIASTRATIC VARIETIES IN
    ENGLISH.
    Prof. Ángela Alameda Hernández

    DIMENSIONS OF VARIATION
    THE ARCHITECTURE OF LANGUAGE

    Language can be DIMENSIONS The varieties are


    influenced by… called…
    Context or setting DIAPHASIC Styles / Registers

    Social group DIASTRATIC Sociolects

    Place or region DIATOPIC Dialects

    Time (historical) DIACHRONIC (Stages)

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    Social group
     What is it? Two or more
    A group of people who share similar characteristics.
     Variables that help identify/create social groups?
     Social class
     Age

     Gender

     Ethnicity

    Sense of belonging
    GROUP IDENTITY

    Which social group do you belong to?

     More than one.


     They change over the course of our life.
     Individuals are complex social units.

    Borders between sociolects are diffuse

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    1. Social class
     Early sociolinguistic studies.
     Defined by: wealth, status, education, power…
     Read p. 64-65
    LINGUISTIC FEATURES
    Upper social class

    Pronoun youse

    Middle social class Pronoun whom

    Non-rhoticity
    Lower working class

     Arbitrariness
    linguistic feature  social meaning/values

     Hypercorrection

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    2. Age: YOUNGSPEAK
     Creates identity in this crucial
    transitional life stage.

    I’m like just standing there, you


     Discourse markers: know, and she like comes up to me
     like and like pushes me like that, you
    know?
     Lexical innovation.
     Dweeb, homie

    Urban dictionary
     Intonation: raising intonation in affirmative statements
     My name is Angela (?)

    3. Gender
     Genderlects

    FEMALE MALE

    Paralinguistic features mitigating expresssions swearing

    rhetorical questions balanced turn-taking

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    Gender
     Genderlects

    FEMALE MALE
    Paralinguistic features
    mitigating expresssions
    rhetorical questions Referential use of questions
    balanced turn-taking
    swearing

    RAPPORT TALK REPORT TALK

    4. Ethnicity
     Common ancestor or heritage.

     Sociolects:
     AAVE or Ebonics. Video
     Latino English.
     Chicano English.

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    POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
     Treating people with respect
     Be careful to use language in a way that does not offend a particular
    social group.
     Tables:
     P. 69 : to avoid gender discriminatory expressions.
     P.71: to avoid ethnically offensive expressions.

     Pros and cons of PC speech.


     It is getting out of hand, being too sensitive.
     The term PC is now used as an insult.
     It privileges the educated elite.
     Users must master a specialized voc.

    A well-known politically incorrect


    person

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