language, thought & culture – style, slang, jargon, taboo words, gendered language

powerpoint presentation lecture 12b: language, thought & culture – style, slang, jargon, taboo words, gendered language styles, slang & jargon styles or registers: varieties of language that are specific to a particular situation formal or informal are you going to take linguistics 20? gonna take ling 20? we all have control over different styles other languages have more elaborate codes of style usage thai: dæk, kin, thaan, raprathan, chan styles or registers can you think of other examples of how you might say the same thing in two different ways, depending on the situation (i.e., when, where, to whom) in which you were speaking? styles, slang & jargon slang: informal, nonstandard vocabulary, usually intelligible only to people from a particular …

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