CSD-3366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2.1: General American, Spoken Language, Hearing Loss

• School: App State
• Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Course: CSD-3366
• Professor: Emily Lakey

Document Summary

Share not only a communication system but a cultural heritage: speech community a group of people who live within the same geographical boundaries and use the same language, different usage patterns within a language are called dialects. Many dialects are regional dialects because they are characteristic of people who live in a certain region: gae = general american english. Most commonly used in the united states: we think of dialects as descriptive, not prescriptive. Prescriptive comments are evaluative judgments and state, implicitly or explicitly, preferences for one dialect over another. Descriptive comments simple describe dialectal variations without evaluative judgments. Determined by our membership in a speech community, our regional background, and by our social class, and by various factors and experiences. Dialects may associate us with a regional or social class and idiolects mark us as separate and distinct groups: speaking and writing are modes of language expression.