Foreign words in different sociolects vary in their degree of adaptation to the basic phonology of the language. Certain professional registers such as legalese show a variation in grammar from the standard language. For instance English journalists or lawyers often use grammatical moods such as subjunctive mood or conditional mood, which are no longer used frequently by other speakers. Concept of language as a whole unit is theoretically lacking in accuracy, and pragmatically rather useless. Consequently, the need arises for scientific classification of sub-language or varieties within the total range of one language.
http://www.nou.edu.ng/NOUN_OCL/pdf/pdf2/ENG%20355.pdf
Broadly it is a Diversity issue!
A sociolect or social dialect is a variety of language associated with a social group such as a socioeconomic class, an ethnic group, an age group, etc.
At work place, people speak official language (common language) and at home ma speak in Dialect.
I agree with the above. However, we must also take into consideration that sometimes the distinction has been politically-driven. Such was indeed the case in Brazil. Before, during and after world war II, newcomers from other countries were forbidden to to speak their mother language in public places (schools, at work)… and even at home. They could be severely punished if they did not speak Portuguese.
I am sure our Brazilian friends here on RG can both correct and deepen my comment.
I was born in Quebec in the 1958. In grade 1, when I learn to write french, I discovered that the language I had so far learned to speak with my familities, the kids and everybody was not the French that is written. For example in the written French, you use all the pronouns: je, tu, il/elle, nous, vous, ils/elles while in the spoken french I was then it was very different. The first reaction was to realize that our spoken language was wrong. Later in a private high school around 15 and 16, my fellow students began to change their spoken language so that it resemble the written language. Most of them came from hiher social and for them it was natural but for me it sound totally phony language and I resist the change to this sophistication. It sound stupid and counterproductive. Adopting this sophisticate spoken language change your social perception/acceptance. All of us got educated into a profession and learned a specific way of speaking common in this profession and speaking this language make us professional. You can say very stupid things as long as you say it professionally , it will usually get undetected by the majority.
I would like to specify this problem. Let's for example take the term "social competence". For some reason whatever one would call "social competent" when it comes to a more private place like family seems totally not to be the same when it comes to leadership. Looking at the fact that every 20th manager is suffering some kind of character disorder (I am using here "character" instead of "personality") and some financial professionals are outdoing any behavior psychopaths show when indeed compared with psychopaths is something that makes me really wonder about what the heck is going on here. Let's say you were a mother or a father and you treat your child the way some managers treat other people I bet sooner or later you had some police officers right in your house followed by charge talking about child abuse. And reading this it may sound funny and maybe make you smile or even laugh. But think one moment about it and what it really means. Because when it comes to huge companies and organisations: Aren't we depend too? Aren't you? How many people does this effect here when it comes to the worst? How come one term that should mean the same for all people and should measure the very same thing simply doesn't work in different environments?
"the problem is that I do not see a solution"
Me neither. I am not even able to grasp in mind where exactly a 'mistake' could occur. Maybe when it comes to intentions and aims. If I asked anyone for example about their communication skills... what exactly do I then know about them? Maybe that a person is talkactive or able to express in a certain way. But doesn't social competence implicate the idea one will use his/her skills for the better which should be (calling it social) a little bit more than use it for the 'good' reason to magnify once own wealth or power? If I am measuring a skill which can be used either social or antisocial... doesn't make sense to call it 'social' only to ennoble somebody and at least empower them without knowing they are really social.
sociolects are ulterior transactions.
Example in Tamilnadu, there are many words which find new meanings and are talked within youngsters at office and becomes a common parlance. To name a few...
PETER - a person who is fluent in english....
TRAFFIC - more attractive person ...
Dear Carmen Wrede,
Yes, most people speak at home another sociolect than at her workplace.
Why is this so? Certain work environments, occupations or groups use necessarily specific technical terms in order to distinguish themselves from competing groups. Especially interesting are the differences between the so-called 'underclass', 'middle class' and 'upper-class'. Each class uses their own language. The more difficult is it to rise from one class to the next higher class.
I myself have witnessed it firsthand. My parents used the language of the working class. As a student I failed in high school first. I therefore learned the practical work of the carpenter. In this environment, a very primitive scatology was spoken. By chance I could y leave this work and went to a scientific institute as laboratory staff. Everyone can understand that I was confronted there with an extremely different sociolect. After a short period of language training (especially with students), I acquired at an evening school the university-entrance diploma.
Today I can look back on 50 years of successful work as a geologist.
Conclusion: The sociolect, language, speaking are the decisive factors of socialization!
That's the way it is!
Best regards,
Guenter Grundmann
Yes, people in workplaces speak another sociolect due to professional requirements. In business, people have to speak in common language.
sure enough, individuals have got a '' linguistic repertoire '' encompassing a whole gamut of linguistic and cultural representations activated at special circumstances like workplace, home, marketplace, religious settings , .. this repertoire includes detailed linguistic features of genre, register, domain, social factors like gender, education, age, and ideological perspectives leading to a diversity of linguistic behaviors.
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