Summary Abour Sociolinguistics- Language And Socie

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Summary Sociolinguistics- language and society. It starts by telling us an example about two people talking, because probably they do not wanted to feel alone , either because they wanted to share information about each other. By talking with another person we can deduce many things, like for example, their origins and the sort of person they are. Those two aspects show us a near relationship between language and society. As it is said in the book we are going to understand that dialect refers to differences between kinds of language which are differences of vocabulary and grammar as well as pronunciation, and the term or accent, on the other hand, refers to differences of pronunciation. So it is important to know well both words. English has a lot of changes, differences in pronunciation, it depends of the place that it is spoken, for example, English used in the upper classes of society, came to diverge quite markedly from that used by other social groups and came to be regarded as the model for all those who wished to write and speak in a good way, but I have to say that an standard English can be spoken with any regional accent and in the vast majority of cases normally is what people do. It is Important to have in mind that the correctness and purity of linguistic varieties and features are social rather than linguistic, al accents of English have an /r/ sound in words such as rich and most have an /r/ sound as in carry, sorry, for example. Saying this in other words the judgments about the English language are from a linguistic point of view. Sometimes people design or develop foreign-language teaching programmes to teach the learner the standard variety of a language, that means that we have to learn the different kinds of accents in order to listen and understand what we are going to teach in the future. As a conclusion each society has so
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