اللغويات الإجتماعية lane422 مراجعة و اسئلة المناطق

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Chapter 2
Language and Social Class
Sociolect
- Variety of language that is used by a particular social class.
- May include phonological, grammatical, lexical, and phonetic (accent) differences.
Different classes
- Separated by social barriers and distance, similar to ‘geographical ones.
- The diffusion of linguistic features may be halted by barriers of social class. Age, race, religion.
- Social distance may also have the same effect as geographical distance.
- This type of social differentiation is known as social Stratification.
Social Stratification
- Is a term used to explain the hierarchical ordering of a society, especially in terms of wealth, power and social status.
- Social classes are not clearly defined or labeled entities.
- Social mobility – movement up or down the social hierarchy – is possible.
- Sociolects are not particularly easy to study, and describe, because, like regional dialects, they form a continuum.
- The more heterogeneous a society is, the more heterogeneous is its language.
- Western-type social-class stratification is not universal.