https://padlet.com/kaankural/6i8nltjqm5vv en-us 2019-04-09 17:32:06 UTC 2025-09-30 12:11:54 UTC hello@padlet.com kaankural https://padlet.com/kaankural/6i8nltjqm5vv/wish/350052628 Most speakers of language speak one way with friends, another on a job interview, or presenting a report in class, another talking to small children, another with their parents, and so on. These ''situation dialects'' are called styles or registers.
Nearly everybody has at least an informal and a formal style.
Informal styles, although permitting certain abbreviations and deletions not permitted in formal speech, are also rule-governed. For example, questions are often shortened with the subject you and the auxiliary verb deleted. You can ask Running the marathon? or You running the marathon? instead of the formal Are you running the marathon? but you cannot shorten the question to Are running the marathon?]]> 2019-04-09 17:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kaankural/6i8nltjqm5vv/wish/350052628 kaankural https://padlet.com/kaankural/6i8nltjqm5vv/wish/350063189 Slang is something that nearly everyone uses and recognizes, but nobody can define precisely. It is more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid and shorter-lived than ordinary language.
Slang is universal. It is found in all languages and all time periods. It varies from region to region, and from past to present. Slang meets a variety of social needs rather than a corruption of the language, it is yet further evidence of the creativity of the human language user.
Examples are spaced-out, hoodie, rave, weed, fuzz.

]]> 2019-04-09 17:53:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kaankural/6i8nltjqm5vv/wish/350063189 kaankural https://padlet.com/kaankural/6i8nltjqm5vv/wish/350073580 Practically every conceivable science, profession, trade and occupation uses specific slang terms called jargon or argot. Jargon like all types of slangs, spreads from a narrow group that originally embraced it until it is used and understood by a large segment of the population.
Part of the reason for specialized terminology is for clarity of communication but part is also for speakers to identify themselves with persons with whom they share interests.
Linguistic jargon, for example, consists of terms such as phoneme, morpheme, lexicon, X-bar schema and so on. ]]> 2019-04-09 18:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kaankural/6i8nltjqm5vv/wish/350073580 kaankural https://padlet.com/kaankural/6i8nltjqm5vv/wish/350081913 The use of epithets for people of different religions, nationalities or races tells us something about the speakers. Words like kike (for Jew), wop (for Italian), nigger or coon (for African American), slant (for Asian), towelhead (for Middle Eastern Arab), and so forth reflect racist and chauvinist views of society.]]> 2019-04-09 18:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kaankural/6i8nltjqm5vv/wish/350081913 kaankural https://padlet.com/kaankural/6i8nltjqm5vv/wish/350084029 A euphemism is a word or phrase that serves to avoid frightening or unpleasant subjects. In many societies, because death is feared, there are many euphemism related to this subject. People are less apt to die and more apt to pass on or pass away.
Other examples are big-boned (fat), moon landing (bald), on the streets (homeless), ethnic cleansing (genocide), put to sleep (euthanize).]]> 2019-04-09 18:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kaankural/6i8nltjqm5vv/wish/350084029