It focuses upon all the topics related to the social organization of language behaviour, including not only language usage itself but also language ATTITUDES and overt behaviour toward language and toward language users.
(
Joshua A. Fishman 1972)
SOAP OPERA
A television or radio story about the daily lives and relationships of the same group of people which is broadcast regularly. (Longman Exams Dictionary .2006)
ANALYSIS OF SOAP OPERAS
1)TERMS OF ADDRESS: interactional phenomena that indicate the relative STATUS of speakers, the degree of intimacy or social distance that is being conveyed, POLITENESS and other social or cultural values.
2-TURN-TAKING
The means by which participants in an interaction coordinate the exchange of speaking turns.
3- Language and gender
ØHow females and male speakers interact with one another in a variety of contexts.
5- Attitudes
LANGUAGE ATTITUDES: key concept / backbone of any
sociolinguistic study.
PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS
1- For the Sociology of Language
As a way of studying different patterns of language behaviour and their effects in society.
vDiscipline : Educational Sociolinguistics
(dealing with relationships between language and
education).
vSoap
operas are used as a source of teaching colloquial language.
conclusion
•Overwhelming influence of the “small box”.
•Language usage as a means of interpreting and interacting with others.
•The ways of encoding and decoding messages, interpreting and ranking values, exercising power are different in each community (conventions)
