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SOCIOLINGUISTICS
LESSON 7
INSTRUCTOR: LE NGUYEN NHU ANH
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LANGUAGE VARIATION:
FOCUS ON USES
SPEECH FUNCTION, POLITENESS AND
CROSS- CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
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OUTLINE
• The function of speech
• Directives
• Politeness and address forms
• Linguistic politeness in different cultures
• Greetings
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Status
Example 6 Teacher to students
(a) Turn to page 394.
(b) Shut the door.
(c) Stop talking please.
Example 7 Minimally explicit forms
(a) Blackboard! (‘Clean the blackboard’)
(b)Bus people! (‘Those who get the school bus
should now leave’)
(c) I hear talking. (‘Stop talking’)
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Example 12
(a) To someone blocking the
light out .
You make a better door
than a window.
(b) Mother to teenage son.
I’m not sure that a couple
of smelly socks in the
middle of the lounge floor
can be beaten as a centre
piece for our dinner party.
What do you think, Tim?
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girls and women tend to favour more polite and less direct
forms of directives than males
Example 13
(a)Tom: Give me that. I need it
now.
(b) Seymour: Get off that car.
(c) Grant: Get out of my house.
(d)Maria: You finished with that
rolling pin now?
(e) Lisa: My turn now eh?
(f) Meg: It’s time for tea so you’ll
have to go home now.
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Example 21
June: Hi. June speaking.
Frances: Hi June. Happy New Year. Just ringing to
check if you and Ricky are coming to our
barbecue tomorrow.
June: Oh, sorry erm didn’t Ricky tell you, we’re
busy tomorrow.
Frances: No he didn’t. Would have been useful to know
a little earlier. We were expecting to be able
to use your barbecue as well as ours.
June: Well too bad I guess since we won’t be there.
Frances: Ok. Thanks for letting us know (sarcastically).
June : Bye (puts phone down).
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Linguistic Politeness in
different cultures
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Linguistic politeness in
different cultures
Example 22
Känner du alla?
(Do you know everyone?)
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Linguistic politeness in
different cultures
Example 22
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Linguistic politeness in
different cultures
On which day of the week
[???] on…everyday would you like to have your bath?
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Linguistic politeness in
different cultures
A plausible and reasonably specific excuse is
mandatory in refusing an invitation in Western culture
Will you come to I’m busy that night
our party? I’m afraid
If Solidarity:
dominant
social
dimension
=> privacy
reduced
=> vagueness
= evasive
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Linguistic politeness in
different cultures
A plausible and reasonably specific excuse is
mandatory in refusing an invitation in Western culture
Will you come to Sorry but I have to
our party? prepare lessons
If Solidarity:
dominant
social
dimension
=> privacy
reduced
=> vagueness
= evasive
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Linguistic politeness in
different cultures
[???] Er, OK! Cool, bring a plate, will you?
Yeah, I’d like to! Want to come to our party?
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Linguistic politeness in
different cultures
Greetings
Example 25
(a) How are you?
(b) Where are you going?
(c) Have you eaten?
(d) Where do you come from?
(e) Are you married?
(f) How much do you earn?
(g) What do you weigh?
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Linguistic politeness in
different cultures
Greetings
Greeting formulas universally serve an
affective function of establishing non-
threatening contact and rapport, but
their precise content is clearly culture
specific.
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Linguistic politeness in
different cultures
Greetings
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All in all
Speech functions
Social context, formality and the relationship
between participants are important factors =>
influence speech acts => politeness
Speech functions are expressed differently in
different communities.
Being polite involves understanding the social
values which govern the way social dimensions
such as status, solidarity and formality are
expressed.
A sociolinguistic description aims to identify the
different weight put on these factors in different
cultures.
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THAT’S ALL!
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