Psycholinguistics examines speech performance to provide insight into which species can speak, how they do so, and how language is learned, stored and processed. It explores the ontology of language in the brain to determine the relation of language and the mind. Dialects and Political Dominance. Many whites speak the same dialect in the South. The issue of sexism in American English is in the forefront of political correctness today.
Juries decide cases based on the communicative weight of spoken arguments and testimony.
Sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics explores the way language is woven into culture and society. It can also seek to eliminate prejudices based on linguistic variation. E. Practical Applications 1. Foreign language teaching and learning 5.