MARKET 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Diaphoneme, Sociolinguistics, Legal English
Document Summary
Register and style: functional, diaphasic variation, determined by setting, communicative situation. Legalese (formal vocabulary), strict rules and roles, no personal connection, inflexible structure, hierarchy. Interruption, switch of topic, no full sentences, comfortable relation, swearing, laughing, body language, spontaneity, fillers, hedges (i think, sort of ), same level of hierarchy. Standard varieties: formal style, official, administrative language, used in written language, tv, radio, part of the education system, upper and middle class. Is a dialect that became a standard variety: most prestigious language form. Non-standard varieties: regionally, socially, functionally or otherwise specific forms of a language, are of the same quality, not of lower value as standard variety, less prestigious than standard stigmatized. Overt prestige: linguistic prestige of standard variety, people speaking standard english = rich, well-educated, power. Covert prestige: prestige regarding own group/non-standard varieties, local, social pride, part of the group identity, ensures survival of non-standard varieties despite stigma by social mainstream.
