lecture 8 Language and Social Culture.pptVIP

Language and Social Culture Can language be isolated from social culture in which it is used? No one would deny the relation of language to social culture. The definition of language often includes a reference to social culture. Sociolinguistics --the subdiscipline of linguistics that studies language in social contexts. --concerned with the social significance of language variation and language use in different speech communities including regional, ethnic and social groups. --focuses on standard and nonstandard varieties of a language, lingua franca混和语, pidgin洋泾浜语 and Creole克利奥尔语, digloss