SOCIOPHONETIC ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE VARIETIVENESS

Abstract

Formation and development of social linguistics as an independent science has been of great impact on the phonetics and phonology. Linguists of many countries are actively developing relations problem of normativity and variation taking into account all the complex factors managing the implementation of the segmented structure of the language. There is a number of interesting works in phonostylistics. It is determined the new direction of sociolinguistic studies - sociophonetics. In discussions on the prospects and the main directions of development of the literary norms inevitably raises the question of what sociolect or dialect has a decisive influence on the formation of orthoepic rules of the language. Sociophonetics expands insights into the function of language, focusing on its social use and rejects the limitations of traditional formal linguistics at the region of the facts and the nature of the research methods. Sociophonetic analysis requires a clear correlation of any persistent signs of social and sound system, new opportunities sourcing sound changes. This approach allows to observe such processes in the dynamics of their development, and in the most general form of a rigid construct evolutionary chain in spreading forms of pronunciation from idiolect to sociolect, and further to the conventional linguistic community option, eventually receiving a chance to become one codified.

Key words: phonostylistics, sociophonetics, language variation, speech situation, style, pronunciation, social dialects, phonological variety.