IT is all about how society effects language and how language effects the society. accent and dialect, jargon and slang vary, at every 90 k-m area. so, i tried to distinguish between them.

1. SOCIOLINGUISTICS

2. SOCIOLINGUISTICS is the study of how
language and social factors are related
SOCIOLINGUISTICS

5. DIALECT ACCENT
It refers to the
broader set of
linguistic
differences
It refers to
differences in
pronunciation

6. Accents typically differ in quality of voice,
pronunciation of vowels and consonants, and stress
pitch ( ex: intonation in Spanish and English questions
and the speech of people from Ecuadorian Coast and
Sierra regions )
ACCENT

7. Dialects can be described at different
levels according to variations
•Phonological ( differences in pronunciation)
• Morphological (word structure)
• Syntactic ( it can be represented by different word order
in sentences,)
• Semantic (differences in meaning, eg:football – soccer )
• Grammatical ( differences in grammar structures may
depend on social status of speakers, age , gender)
DIALECT

8. DIALECT
• American English:
“You don’t know, what you are talking about”
• Scottish English:
“Ye dinnae ken, whit yer haverin’ aboot”

9. WHAT IS JARGON?

10. JARGON
• A Jargon is characteristic language of particular group,
profession or event.
• The word comes from Old French jargon meaning “chatter
of birds”.
• Jargon: the language used by people who work in a
particular area or who have a common interest.

11. USE OF JARGON

12. WHAT IS SLANG?

13. It refers to the use of
informal words and
expressions that are not
considered standard in
the speaker's dialect or
language.
It may refer to things
considered taboo or
euphemisms “( The
substitution of an
inoffensive terms such
as "passed away" for
"died”) .

14. Standard
 Am not, is not, has not
 Very good
 Very
 To play a trick
 You all
Slang
 Ain’t
 Cool
 damn
 To pull one’s leg
 Ya’all
SLANG

16. LANGUAGE VARIATIONS
Deliberate change, from one manner or style of
speaking to another is called CODE SWITCHING or
code choice

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