ANT253H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Communicative Competence, Speech Community, Quotative
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Social dialects (sociolects) : linguistic variation that occurs in social spaces. Social alignment: those who speak the standard variety of a language tend to have better career opportunities, financial achievement, etc. Dialect speakers, are perceived by employers to be more likely to be less educated and thus are deemed as less employable. Dialect speakers are more likely to be under-represented in the mainstream media and in politics, and are over- represented in negative ways. Speech community: a group of people sharing a common language. Communicative competence: the ability to use the code of the community in an appropriate or effective way. Generic: used more often in speech than in writing, and more often with friends than with strangers. Group based (cryptolect): arises within cliques and special groups for reasons of solidarity and in-group communication. When slang expressions gain broad currency, they are called colloquialisms.
