The Impact Of Computer Science On Computer Scientists’ Daily Speech

Résumé: Since the 1960’s, serious investigations have been undertaken within the field of language variation. In addition to its association with social variables such as age, gender, social class, ethnicity and social network, language is sensitive to context. Occupation is a contextual situation according to which language varies as well. Distinct varieties are related to distinct occupations. Occupational varieties are known as registers. Because of the inescapable impact of occupation on the human behaviour, the specialist’s behaviour is linguistically influenced by his occupational field; the use of registers, although temporary, affects the speaker’s daily speech. This paper tackles the case of computer scientists who tend to employ, out of the context of their work, technical terms in their ordinary conversations. It also supplies a sociolinguistic description to the point

Publié dans la revue: دفاتر في اللسانيات والتعليمية