SOCIOLINGUISTICS : Language,Dialect and Varieties

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.