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Taller Focalizado I
Style
The variations of speech that occurs
within individual speakers who
come from a single location.
Style and
Formality
writing.
The varying levels of attention
to variety forms a natural
continuum.
Explanation: the stylistic
variation is the result of the care
that speakers and writers take
with their expression.
The more formal de situation,
the more attention we pay to
our language.
Accommodation and
Normativism
Audience
design: a speaker who
can control more than one variety
chooses a level of speech
according to the audience he or
she is addressing.
Accommodation: we
automatically adjust our speech to
be more like that of our
interlocutor.
Normativism: the approach taken
by purists who claim that there is
one correct version and that all
Specialized
varieties
Register: the special variety especially
Domains
These are the typical social situation
with three defining characteristics:
place, role-relationship and topic.
Domains are named usually for a
place or an activity in
it. common domain
A one
is home.
Role-relationships
include: family
members and visitors.
Topics (which depends
on the cultural
patterns) may be:
Slang and
Solidarity
Slang is one way of estabilishing social identity.
Its main characteristics are:
the special kinds of intimate or in-group speech.
The rejection of formal rules.
Its freshness and epheremerality.
Free usage of taboo expressions., e.g. fuck, shit.
Its the feature of speech of the young and the
powerless.
Solidarity is an important social force that has a
Language and
Gender
Traditionally, the word gender was restricted to the
activities.
Mens talk is associated with the outside world and economic
activities.
stereotyping:
Generic masculine: however well-meaning and neutral the
Social
Stratification
It is the study of class distinction.
Free variation: the notion that the
social status.
Each social level (determined on the basis of
income, occupation and education) had a
similar gradation according to style or degree of
formality.