Language Variation Flashcards

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The study of those features that differ systematically aw we compare different groups of speakers or the same speakers in different situation.

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Language variation

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Those categories and rules that all human language, past and present, have in common.

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Language Universals

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A language used in a certain geographical area. Variety of a language, specific to a particular group.

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Dialect

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4
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Distribution of a linguistic feature of a map.

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Isogloss

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5
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Variety of language used by people in the same socio-cultural position.

Used for education, scholarship, and state administration all over the country.

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Sociolect

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Used for communication between people with no common language.

Linguistic system used when the speakers of different languages come into contact through trade or colonization.

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Pidgin

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7
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Pidgin becomes the native language of a community, it is called a creole.

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Creole

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A very informal language, with a vocabulary composed typically of coinage and arbitrarily. Common used by young speakers

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Slang

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9
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Conditioned by the subject matter.

Each field of interest .

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Register

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10
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The register of a field is full of technical terms which those who have received no training in that field cannot understand.

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Jargon

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11
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The total of all the varieties of a language that person knows.

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Idolect

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12
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Ability to change from one variant to another.

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Code swtiching

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13
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Two distinct varieties of a language co-occur in a speech community , high prestige and low prestige

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Disglossia

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14
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Knowledge of two languages

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Bilingualism

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