LanguageandSociety程序.ppt

Chapter 8 Language and Society Language Change: Synchronic or Diachronic? Contents Language Society 2. The scope of sociolinguistics 3. Speech Community and Speech Variety 4. Varieties of language 5. Register 6. Degree of formality 7. Standard dialect 8. Pidgin and creole 9. Bilingualism and Diglossia 1. Introduction The movie My Fair Lady (1964) was adapted from the novel Pygmalion (1912) by George Bernard Shaw. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from Prof. Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a well born lady. Audrey Hepbur