LINGUIST 2E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Idiolect, Sociolect, Nanaimo Bar

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 2E03
• Professor: Magda Stroinska

Document Summary

Idiolect and style: language makes people - continuation. Registers: functional speech varieties: casual, use when you"re talking to friends, formal. In court speech interpreter (so the judge will know what you are saying) Interview if serious about job: business meeting, school in an essay, you are writing more formal. In assignments not very formal, because you"re shopping for a nonexistent: technical. Registers are almost like your outfit, you change your speech. If you are in a formal meeting, you use the same outfit. Let"s say you go to the bar with the same people at the meeting, you"ll use an informal register. All of the ranges of speech verities you have at your disposal, it will form your idiolect. But everything on the right determines the sociolects you have at your disposal: if you live in other countries, you have more than one regional variety can speak both.