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Chapter 9 SociolinguisticsStudy of language and society;Identify the conversational implicatures ;A: Where is Bill? B: There is a black Cadilac out of Susan’s house.;A: That’s the phone. B: I’m in the bathroom. A: Okay.;9.1 Scope of Sociolinguistics;9.1.2 Factors affecting the use of language ; analysis of regional or social dialects: whether different social groups speak differently and whether language change is in progress research into the form and function of politeness in everyday interaction: what are used as markers of politeness in conversations, how these are related to social dimensions study of minimal responses (such as mmm, yeah, and right) or discourse markers (such as well, you know);9.1.4 Speech community and speech variety (言语社区与言语变体）;Speech variety, or language variety, refers to any distinguishable form of speech used by a speaker or group of speakers. The distinctive characteristics of a speech variety are mainly reflected in its pronunciation, syntax and vocabulary. ;9.1.5 Approaches to sociolinguistic studies; a linguistic variety used by people living in the same geographical region natural boundaries (mountains, rivers, islands) contribute to regional differences loyalty to one s native speech and resistance to change can also contribute to the regional variations of language ;The most noticeable differences in regional dialects are seen in their accents, in spite of the differences in pronunciation, syntax and vocabulary most familiar type of variation ;9.2.1.2 Social dialect/sociolect （社会方言） ;;9.2.1.4 Ethnic dialect;9.2.2 Register (语域）/ Stylistic variation; A person’s style is sometimes formal, sometimes neutral and sometimes casual The factors determining the stylistic variation include the occasions in which communication takes place, the social status and relations of the participants, the place of communication, topics, the medium of communication, etc Stylistic variations are realized by different choi