There are various ways in which people talk based upon an individual’s social context. Within California there are communities that are affected by other neighboring communities’ language. The language of these neighboring communities eventually adapts and have a great impact to the daily usage of language and culture. There is a difference between Northern California culture and Southern California culture because of the social context. If individuals from two different societies come together, then social relations will be affected because people’s different lifestyle has a great influence on language. The change in culture is caused by individuals because “there can obviously be no culture without a society- much as there can be no society
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Although social location has a great effect towards interactions with people coming from different areas, sooner or later, individuals will learn to acknowledge and open to new structures of language, as a result creating comfort within each other.
Mexico serves as a neighboring country to SoCal which is also a big influence why there is more Chicano talk and accent in my speech. Although there are Hispanics who live in NorCal, their speech does not consist of Spanglish or Chicano English; their speech is more precise and clear. Thus, it is evident how “language from a state of change” (Spreng 2017) where in this case, the Mexican language begins to associate with Southern California talk and people’s word choice. Northern California has neighboring communities as well, but the neighboring communities are still within the English …show more content…
In this case, coming to a new environment meant adapting to a new form of speech, it being the articulation of words, emphasis on words or saying certain words or phrases which included “shifts in the sound system” (Cran, 2014). This would mean words like “do” would be pronounced more like “dew” caused by “words that have oo in them in California English” (Cran, 2014). Interaction between the two parts of California created a pressure and a slight change in my language. Now, I find myself interwinding Northern Californian talk with my Southern Californian talk; and the times I’ve gone home, I’m targeted by family or friends on certain words I pronounce or say. As a result, “culture continuously influences or conditions the members of the underlying society or societies -indeed, largely determines the content of their lives” (Kroeber 1987: page
Although social location has a great effect towards interactions with people coming from different areas, sooner or later, individuals will learn to acknowledge and open to new structures of language, as a result creating comfort within each other.
Mexico serves as a neighboring country to SoCal which is also a big influence why there is more Chicano talk and accent in my speech. Although there are Hispanics who live in NorCal, their speech does not consist of Spanglish or Chicano English; their speech is more precise and clear. Thus, it is evident how “language from a state of change” (Spreng 2017) where in this case, the Mexican language begins to associate with Southern California talk and people’s word choice. Northern California has neighboring communities as well, but the neighboring communities are still within the English …show more content…
In this case, coming to a new environment meant adapting to a new form of speech, it being the articulation of words, emphasis on words or saying certain words or phrases which included “shifts in the sound system” (Cran, 2014). This would mean words like “do” would be pronounced more like “dew” caused by “words that have oo in them in California English” (Cran, 2014). Interaction between the two parts of California created a pressure and a slight change in my language. Now, I find myself interwinding Northern Californian talk with my Southern Californian talk; and the times I’ve gone home, I’m targeted by family or friends on certain words I pronounce or say. As a result, “culture continuously influences or conditions the members of the underlying society or societies -indeed, largely determines the content of their lives” (Kroeber 1987: page