LINGUIST 2E03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Body Language, Idiolect, Received Pronunciation
15 Sep 2016
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How idiolect affects the style that you speak with. Groups of speakers, if relatively coherent, are called a speech community: eg. Canadian, mcmaster students (eg. bsb, dbac, 1a03, ), sports groups. Standard language: british standard language, french standard language Dialects (different accent + lexicon (vocabulary) + grammar) Accents: regional pronunciation of the standard language: grammar is the same but accent distinguishes you to your native dialect/language. Gender: forms of address (hey girl, hun, sweetie, when speaking in detail about gender-specific things, specific genders know more and talk more freely about specific things. Age: popular slang / lingo / terms used by people of different generations, slang is something that dates you / tells what age you are and what time period you grew up with. Different programs use different jargon and terms more related to your profession or field of study: often used to keep people who don"t belong outside / separate from your own group.
