Samenvatting - Oral Communication Skills (OCS) chapter 9
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Oral Communication Skills
Institution
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (RU)
The document is a summary of chapter 9 on sociolinguistics, which discusses the relationship between language and social factors such as class, ethnicity, age, and gender. It focuses on dialects and variations in English, particularly ethnic varieties such as African American Vernacular English (AA...
Based on social class and situation. Other things are gender and age
Ethnic dialects
Meaning of the word dialect
Meaning sociolinguistics
North-east: r-lessness after vowels
Park the car in the Harvard yard -> Pahk the cah in the havahd yahd.
Three sorts of variation:
- Social factors
- Position of the /r/ in a word
- Speech situation (formal/informal)
South: southern drawl. Raising of /e/ to /I/. /ai/ becomes nasalized and lengthened. Before
an /N/ the /Z/ becomes /d/.
Vocabulary: loanwords for foods
Anymore means nowadays or these days
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