ANT253H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: African American Vernacular English, Denotation, Dennis Amiss
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People use slang more often in speaking than in writing, and more often with friends than. Slang bespeaks of friendliness and commonality; jargon does not. Slang expressions become colloquialisms, that is, expressions used in everyday conversation. Jargon and slang are variants of a language that are produced by social variation, not variation. Purpose of chapter looking at various aspects of sociolectal variation in f2f and cmc spaces. Dealing with sociolinguistic phenomena such as slang, jargon, cants, registers, styles, and. The variant forms of speech are called social dialects, extending the traditional geographical. Speech community a group of people sharing a common language or dialect. To be considered part of speech community, an individual needs to have communicative. Speech communities are based on specific forms of language, indicating that people use. Introduction language codes. notion of dialect to encompass variation in the social domain.
