LANGUAGE,DIALECT AND
VARIETIES
Language is the method of human communication
either spoken or written or the tools of communication. Language has a
varieties,language variety refers to the various forms of language triggered by
social factors. Language may cahges from region to region.
Dialect is a language variety,that is
characterized by systematic feautures (e.g,
grammatical,pronunciation,vocabulary). And there is Idiolect,the speech variety
of an individual speaker.
According to Wardaugh (1988:
20),Varieties
is a specific set of linguistic items of human speech patterns.(e.g ,
pronunciation).
Kind of Language :
Regional dialects ; there may even be very distinctive local coloring in the
language which you notice as you move from one location to another.
Social dialects ; the term dialect can also used to describe differences in
speech associated with various social groups or classes.
According to Bell,these
criteria may be used to distinguish
certain language from others:
1.Standardization
2.Vitality
3.Historicity
4.Autonomy
5.Reduction
6.Mixture
7.de facto norms
Question:
1.What is differences between of
accents and dialects?
2.How do we know the origin regional
of people based on their dialect by using the same language?
3.How distinguish slang and idiom?
4.Do our dialects changes if we go
abroad for 3 month?
ANSWER:
1.Accents based on pronunciation the
speaker’s and Dialects based on Grammatical or region the speaker’s. e.g ,
Behaviour[British],Behavior[American]
2.The dialect of a region can be
known based on the sound ,the preasure,the decrease of the tone and the short
length of the language sounds referring to a particular area.
3.Slank is a type of language that is
informal and playful, meanwhile idiom are expression that have meaning
different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words in the
expression.
4.Yes we do, because our
neighborhood,social status and personality.
