COTOPAXI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

PEDAGOGY IN NATIONAL AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES.

TEACHER: VICENTE RODRIGO TOVAR VIERA

MEMBERS: MORELIA GUACHI, ERIKA CALAPAQUI, NATALY

CARRILLO, DAYANA GRANJA, ESTEFANY CASTRO, KARLA
TACO.

MATTER: SOCIOLINGUISTICS.

SUBJECT: SUMMARYOF TOPICS.

2022
LANGUAGE CHANGE

Language change affects all areas of language use and changes depending on where you are, for
example, language can change culturally, socially, and educationally. Sometimes, we must
change certain elementary rules to achieve good communication. Also, changes in language are
often caused by the relationship of one language to another specified language. Language
change also includes sound, lexical, semantic and syntactic change, which means that over time
language change affects all areas of language. The internal changes were due to people
adopting a new language to integrate into everyday life or different social aspect. Language
today can be rapidly changed as people adopt new terms when they find that these new terms or
words help them to integrate into society. Old pronunciations are gradually falling out of use.
And the important thing to remember is that the more you use another language, the more that
language itself will change over time. Change can also occur at a specific point in time as the
change eventually spreads outward to all people.

VARIATION AND STYLE

Stylistic variation tells us about a variety of languages in a person's accent or dialect across
different regions. Accent refers to the pronunciation of each word, while dialect is characterized
more by a distinctive feature in vocabulary and sentence structure. It can also be said that this
not only occurs in everyday life but also in formal speech. Stylistic variation can be
characterized because when speaking and noticing its linguistic variation it can be said to be
from a specific place. For example, stylistic variation can occur in a specific place that makes
you notice a specific accent when speaking, for example, Quechua, where not all people have
the same accent when speaking, and in each specific place they have an accent that
characterizes them. A sociolinguist looks at the person when speaking, whether they are
speaking formally or informally. They are concerned with determining a very delicate variation
based on semantics that can determine social differences. Stylistic variation is associated with
language varieties and different groups that have a change in accent or dialect.
3.- LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY

Characteristics

Language is not only a means of communicating information but also an important means of
establishing and maintaining relationships with other people. In a conversation our accent and
what we say shows where we come from, what kind of background we have, and even our
attitudes and this can help people with whom we might formulate an opinion about us.Two
people when speaking may be using a different dialect, the dialect of people changes due to a
series of factors, in this case the conversation may become suffocating but there may also be
interest in learning more about the dialect of other people There are several languages but
within each language there may be variations in the dialect, for example in Ecuador one of the
existing variations is due to the region in which we live, on the Coast, Sierra and Amazonia they
use different words to refer to the same object in even the intonation of voice is different. But
that does not mean that we must exclude ourselves from relationships with other people, but
rather that we must learn to establish social relationships regardless of the language they use.

4.-Language in Action (Research studies on language variation)

Social networks and communities of practice

Social classes can be used to group large swathes of people without the researcher needing to
know them very well, whereas social networks are groupings based on frequency and quality of
members’ interaction.Social networks are defined by who your friends are, who you live near,
who you have dinner or have drinks with, and who you work with. Network analyses also ask
how often the members of all these groups are the same, and how often they are completely
different?. It is very important for sociolinguists to have a sense of what the patterns of
associations are between people who are friends or roughly social equals within a
community.The significance of social networks emerges implicitly in sociolinguistics as early
as Labov’s study of Martha’s Vineyard.Social network theory was introduced to sociolinguistics
from sociology. In other fields of the social sciences, social networks have been found to have a
big impact on how innovations are spread through society.Networks can also be distinguished in
terms of the quality of the ties between individuals.Like social networks, the community of
practice has been borrowed into sociolinguistics from another field of the social sciences.
Communities of practice were initially developed as part of a social theory of learning.

Abstract

In these study topics we learned about styles and describe them as a set of characteristics of
something or a way of classifying something. These styles can also be applied to linguistics.
Since linguistics studies the differences in speaking and pronouncing a language. That is to say
that the linguistic styles are the different ways of speaking the same language. These different
ways of speaking the same language are called dialects and depend on various social factors.
Sociolinguistics is in charge of studying and exploring the different social meanings that we
give to language.

Sociolinguistics is a very extensive field of linguistics that can study and analyze various topics.
This field of linguistics can study the use of language, the different ways of speaking, the
different factors that influence the language, etc. There are several types of sociolinguists who
study the various topics that sociolinguistics analyzes.
Linguistic variables are also studied, which means the different general characteristics that a
language has and analyze its origin.

Bibliografía
MEYERHOFF, M. (2006). Chapter 9 Social networks and communities of practice. En M.
MEYERHOFF, Introducing Sociolinguistics (págs. 184-201). Library of Congress
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