Reflection sociolinguistic patterns
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This document discusses how the text "Sociolinguistic Patterns" is relevant to understanding language change. It explains that sociolinguistics examines how social factors like class, gender, and age influence language use. The text contributes to an analysis course by demonstrating how language varies based on these sociolinguistic patterns. It also aids future teachers by providing guidance on English variations related to context. In conclusion, the text helps students, especially future teachers, comprehend how and why a language changes depending on its social uses.
Reflection sociolinguistic patterns
- 1. Throughout the following reflection, we will explain how the text “Sociolinguistic Patterns” affects the language itself, the importance of it, and how it is related to the course Lexical Analysis. Moreover, this text is useful for students and future English teachers because it has clear examples of how language change depending on the context that is used, as well as the different features that are involved in language. First of all, we need to know that sociolinguistics is the study of the language in a social context. Sociolinguistic, in general terms, explains how language is affected by different patterns such as social class, gender, age, among others. These patterns differ depending on the context a language is being used. Sociolinguistics Patterns text contributes to the Lexical Analysis course because it helps us to understand how a language can change due to this features that are presented in every country, every society. Besides, it helps us to develop critical thinking which contributes in our learning of the English Language. On one hand, this text is an aid for teachers because it is a kind of guidance for learning and teaching varieties of English which has a direct relationship with the unit we are going over this semester at university. On the other hand, the text is useful material to comprehend and know a little bit more about the development of a language that can vary depending on external and internal patterns. As a conclusion, sociolinguistic patterns text comes to the aid of students, specifically, future teachers. In our personal opinion, we think that this text has to be shared among students of English, because it tells us how a language can change by studying and analyzing the different patterns that are involved in this change. Even though, a language (in this case English) has several variations depending on context and the people who speak it. English can be understood by every single person who speaks this language, because it has become a worldwide language, due to the process of standardization. Rosa González – Jaime Sáez