社会方言-语言学

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Dialect:
It is a variety of a language, spoken in one part of a country, or by people belonging to a particular social class, which is different in some words, grammar, and/or pronunciation from other forms of the same language.
Education: Lower: Them boys throwed somethin’ Higher: The boys throwed something.
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Social class:
Labov(1972) 1. Saks (high status) 2. Macy’s (middle status) 3. Klein’s (low status ) the higher the socio-economic status, the more [r] sounds, The lower the socio-economic status, The fewer [r] sounds were produced.
Uriah Heep(in David Copperfield)
‘I am wll aware that I am the umblest person going’, said Uriah Heep, modestly;‘…My mother is likewise a very umble person. We live in a numble abode, Master Copperfield, but we have much to be thankful for. My father’s former calling was umble.
如,标准意大利语相对于托斯卡纳语来说是一种地域 方言。但作为意大利民族的语言,它也是社会方言, 因为它被作为通用语在全国的广播,新闻媒体和上流 社会中被使用。
So the difference in a single consonant could mark higher versus lowah social class .
That was in New York.
Trudgill(1974)
• He found that the same variable (i.e.[r] after a vowel) had the opposite social value. • Upper middle class speakers in that area tended to pronounce fewer [r] sounds than lower working class speakers.
Social dialect
Or sociolect, is a variety of a language (a dialect) used by people belonging to a particular social class.
The speakers of a sociolect usually share a similar socioeconomic and/or educational background. Sociolects may be classed as high(in status) or low( in status). The study of social dialects concerns a variety of social parameters Such as Social class and education Age and gender Ethnic background
方言(dialect)是语言的变体 根据性质,方言可分地域方言和社会方言, 地域方言是语言因地域方面的差别而形成的变体,是全方言民语言的不同地域上 的分支,是语言发展不平衡性而在地域上的反映。 社会方言是同一地域的社会成员因为在阶层、文化教养、年龄、性别、职业等方 面的社会差异而形成不同的社会变体。
Isn’t that mahvellous dahling! Isn’t that marvellous darling!
walking / going Sittin’ / drinkin’
[h]-droppping Ouse-house Charles Dickens, Writing in the middle of the nineteenth-century. It was one way of marking a character’s lower status ello-hello (lower social class and less education)
Social dialect
• • • • • • social class and education Age and gender Ethnic background Idiolect Style, register and jargon Diglossia
Two obvious factors in the investigation of social dialect are social class and education
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