final assignment in sociolinguistics topic sociolinguistic background for language variety sociolect of slang through media means in the british u s a and vietnam

Hue University Univerisity of Foreign Languages Faculty of English O00 FINAL ASSIGNMENT IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS Topic: Sociolinguistic Background for language variety sociolect of slan

Hue University

Univerisity of Foreign Languages

Faculty of English

O00

FINAL ASSIGNMENT IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Topic: Sociolinguistic Background for language

variety (sociolect) of slang through media means in the

British/ U.S.A and Vietnam

Instructor: Truong Bach Le

Student full name: Lé Thuy Diém

ID: 18F7511058

Class: Sociolinguistics- Class 03 Hue, 2021

TABLE OF CONTENT

A INTRODUCTION

B CONTENT

[Definition

1.1 Social media

1.2 Slang

IL Characteristics of slang through social media

1 The British/ U.S.A Slang

1.1 Phonology

1.2 Morphology

1.3 Semantics

2 The Vietnamese slang

2.1 Semantics

2.2 Morphology

Ill The functions of slang in the British/ U.S.A and Vietnam through social media

1 Pursuit of self-identity

2 Emotive feeling of the slang users

3 Slang helps people connect the relations

C.Conclusion

References

A INTRODUCTION

In recent years, in almost all cities of Vietnam, the trend of using slang among people is

becoming more and more popular from kinds of media means such as television, Internet

In particular, it is common on social media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter,

Whatapps Compared to the slang of other groups, Vietnamese adolescent slang has

many characteristics of youthful, fun, witty, and intelligence

As for British/ American slang, it comes in varying purposes when use it One of them is

from the different subculture groups of society As time passing by, the developing

society enlarges the resources of slang and enriches its contexts Also, young people are

quite active in creating slang in many contexts on social media They use slang terms in

their conversation to show their attitude towards society or their own way of thinking It

is one of the linguistic varieties, which is important so they cannot separate it from its

social background and social surroundings

Slang can be used with the purpose of concealing the expressive meaning Gradually, it is

not only used with the meaning of hiding information but also used to imply other

meanings on social media and social networks

Because it is popular and widespread using on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter that has

created a diversity of slang That is also the reason why I discuss the topic

“Sociolinguistic background for language variety (sociolect) of slang through media

means in the British/ U.S.A and Vietnam”

This text on purpose elaborates more about the variety (sociolect) of slang, its

characteristics and its function through social media in the Bntish/ U.S.A and Vietnam

Then, concluding with a result and comment on this variety of slang

B CONTENT

I Definitions

1.Social media

The term social media refers to a computer-based technology that facilitates the sharing

of ideas, thoughts, and information through virtual networks and communities Social

media is internet-based and gives users quick electronic communication of content, such

as personal information, documents, videos, and photos

Social media originated as the way to connect with friends and family The facility of

social media is that the ability to attach and share information with anyone on Earth, or

with many of us simultaneously

2 Slang

Slang can be considered to be “very informal words and expressions that are more

common in spoken language, especially used by a group of people, for example, children,

criminals, soldiers ”(p.125)

Slang is an informal nonstandard variety of speech characterized by newly coined and

rapidly changing words and phrases

In terms of social media such as Facebook, What apps, Instagram,, there are many

examples of slang that many youths frequently use in common conversations

In Vietnamese:

- cakhia : mocking

- người tôi cô :people who not catch up trend, new news

- #:d1 , di noi khac - go out, or go to other place

- toang: vỡ kế hoạch, dự kiến - express a breakdown, a broken plan, an irreparable

mistake

- GATO: ghen ăn tức ở- Jealous

- Xu cả na: xui xẻo- unlucky

In British/ U.S.A:

- 2: hi or to

- Ex: ex-girlfriend, ex-boyfriend

- “bae”: nickname of girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, or wife

-“yall” : you all, and many more (Fathonah, E L.,2018)

- “Bro” is slang for a close call for a friend or interlocutor (male) It is a fragment of the

English word, brother

- LOL is interpreted as laugh out loud, lots of laughter, laughing out loud, lots of love

- TGIF means Thank God it is Friday

II Characteristic of slang through social media

1 The British/ U.S.A Slang

In British and USA, slang is one of the most interesting and at the same time difficult

phenomena of language Slang — the complex, difficult, and inevitable language social

and cultural tendencies of life of this or that language

It is the territorial, temporary or social kind of language and popular in social media

Especially, social networks such as Facebook, Whatapps, Twitter, where slang develops

in a variety of aspects Slang is the diction that results from the words and renaming

things and actions; some invent new words, or mutilate or misapply the old, for the

pleasure of novelty, and others catch up such words for the pleasure of people in using

slang for communication through social media Slang also plays an important role in

expressing a certain emotional attitude towards problems or simply expressing

viewpoints of the youth

The contribution of slang in enriching language is also short of a real representation of

the dynamism of language

In general, we can classify them into some linguistic properties of slang:

1.1 Phonology

At the phonological level, slang plays with sounds and manipulates word pronunciation

through onomatopia, echoism, jocular mispronunciation of words, assimilation, Cockney

rhyming slang (coursebook, p.128)

For example:

+2: to

+ the gram means Instagram

+ Friendversary :friendship anniversary

+ Bestie : best friend

+ Doge: dog

+Mishu: miss you

+ Fit: outfit

1.2 Morphology

- At the morphology level, Eble (1996) claimed that “the same ordinary word-building

processes that give rise to the general vocabulary also shape slang expressions”

(coursebook,p129)

- Create a variety of symbols to faster and easy understand for those in conversation

Examples:

+ BFF: Best Fnend Forever

+LOLOL: Lots of laughs out louds

+ thx: thanks

+BTW: by the way

+nvm :nevermind

+ Dm: direct message

- Using their own symbol to communicate with each other

Examples:

+143: I love you

+18r: later

+218: too late

- Removing syllables in a word:

Examples:

+Mem: member

+ Sus: suspicious

Hil: little

+ Favs: favorites

+ Pls: please

- Magnetization of word-forming elements

+ back2school: return to school

+ 2hand: second hand

+ 2H2H: too hot to handle

1.3 Semantics

The semantics of slang has attracted the attention of almost all pertinent studies In

particular, Eble [1996, as cited in Mattiello, 2008) underlines the tendency of slang to

name things indirectly or figuratively, especially through metaphor, synonyms,

polysemantic (coursebook, p.129)

For example:

+Twitterstorm: a quick rise of activity about a specific topic on Twitter

+Troll: makes fun of teasing others

+Swag: skills or style

+Selfie: picture of yourself

+Ermahgerd: Oh my gosh

+Wig: incredible

+Crush: you fond of somebody

+ Bussin: Really good

2 Vietnamese Slang

As well as slang in the British/ United States Slang, Vietnamese slang has some

characteristics that just fit for specific groups or Vietnamese young age

Slang on social media is some kind of word created by the youth and only understood by

them If we use it in another context, the minority of people will understand its

significance

It can be said that slang is a good language to hide the real meaning and also to express

other meanings in an indirect way There are more and more slang words these days

created in order to make daily conversation more fun and humorous

Slang is different from the official language Slang has a limited number of users over

time and will not be recognized as a language However, it always arises to many kinds of

different slangs together with the development of social networks Especially, in this

modem era, people day by day quickly catch up on trends on Facebook, Twitter,

Instagram

In reality, Vietnamese slang words are formed on the basis of Vietnamese words and

according to available word-forming methods or using available lexical units of

Vietnamese

Vietnamese slang is also divided into two parts: semantics and morphology

2.1 Semantics

-Using synonyms, polysemantic, metaphors or using inherent lexical units of

Vietnamese:

Examples:

+ khoai: khó thực hiện duoc- difficult to carry out

+ chất: ngầu, có phong cách đẹp lạ - have a cool style

+ say nắng, cảm nắng: phải lòng quý mến một ai đó : you tend to like someone

+ khủng: to lớn- large, huge

+ Bánh bèo: cô gái yêu điệu, làm nũng, tính tình tiêu thu- gentle, sensitive, weak girls

+ chấm bi: nốt ruồi - mole

2.2 Morphology

- Using homophones which has an available word or word combination that contains a

homophone unit and has the same meaning as the word you want to say

Examples:

+ rau mùi: mùi ( cơ thể) - smell of body

+ chim ung : ung y : fancy something

+ chim cut : cut di : told someone get out of here

+ 2 (hai) means hi: xin chao

+9 (night): chuc ngu ngon

+ ngất ngây con gà tây : ngất ngây

- Using or creating symbols:

+ ATSM: ao tudéng suc manh -illusion

+ GATO: ghen 4n tire 6 - jealous

+ qtqd: qua trời quá đất

+ cnn: chuc ngu ngon - good night

+ scd: sao cling duoc - whatever

+ k(1000) : đơn vị tién- money unit

+ lit (tram): đơn vị tiền- money unit

Il: The functions of slang in the British/ U.S.A and Vietnam through social media

Through the characteristics of slang, we consider that we not only consider those

characteristics in social media which influence slang but we recognize the role of slang in

its own character In addition, we can not indicate clearly what the functions of slang

through social media is, the most

important point lies in that language is for communication between people We finally

classify the functions into three main points

1 Pursuit of self-identity

Slang is different from others so that if somebody uses the words and expressions within

a certain social network group, he/she will blend with the group members

Also, they can get the result of showing and strengthening the emotion that they are

belonging to the inside of the young people society

2 Emotive feeling of the slang users

The emotive function in communication reveals the speakers’ attitude towards the topic

Thence, it is one of the most important functions for slang in express their strong feeling

Many people use slang in their conversation to stress their emotional status or against

someone or something on a controversy

3 Slang helps people connect the relations

Slang can make the atmosphere fun and humorous, however, it may ruin the friendship if

we do not use it in the right situation, and context The use of slang can maintain the

friendship and intimacy between our

friends For instance, in informal conversation, we always greeting like that

yy +†

“how's it going? ", "What's up”, or give farewell expressions like"catch you later!" "see

ya", These all show that the speaker wishes to establish a good relation to their friends

C Conclusion

In conclusion, it can be said that the British/ U.S.A and Vietnamese slang words have

certain characteristics They are different, but they all clearly show their own

characteristics of youth slang That's the language slang has a youthful, witty, reflecting

an active life and trends "passionately inventive and creative” in adolescents on social

networks

The increasing appearance of slang on the British/ U.S.A and Vietnamese social networks

proves that youth slang is part of the inevitable law of language development,

contributing to rich language for daily communication In the future, maybe slang will be

more varied in not only social media communication but also daily life because of its

positive bring to people If we use at the right time, in the nght place, kind of this form of

language can actually bring about positive meanings such as bringing the pursuit of self-

identity, the emotive feeling of the slang users and helping people connect the relations

on social phenomena

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