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Language Varieties

The document discusses different language varieties including dialects, pidgins, and creoles. It notes that every person speaks with a dialect and accent that are influenced by their region and background. While some dialects may be associated with more prestige and power, no variety is inherently better than another. Pidgins develop for trading purposes and have no grammar, but creoles evolve from pidgins and become full-fledged languages with their own grammar rules and native speakers. Dialect boundaries can be identified by looking at differences in pronunciation across geographical regions.

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Language Varieties

The document discusses different language varieties including dialects, pidgins, and creoles. It notes that every person speaks with a dialect and accent that are influenced by their region and background. While some dialects may be associated with more prestige and power, no variety is inherently better than another. Pidgins develop for trading purposes and have no grammar, but creoles evolve from pidgins and become full-fledged languages with their own grammar rules and native speakers. Dialect boundaries can be identified by looking at differences in pronunciation across geographical regions.

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Language Varieties:

Dialects; Pidgin &


Creoles
THE STANDARD LANGUAGE
is associated to

Prestige Education Public life


Prestigious Science, Law,
Academic
Speakers Politics,
Writing
Religion.

Taught as a
Used by
Second
educated
Language to
speakers
foreigners
Blimey! Idunno!
Everybody speaks a dialect with an accent.
These concepts may be close, but they are not the same.

DIALECT ACCENT
Refers to Refers to

A variety
Phonological
features

Grammatical Phonological
features features

THERE ARE SOME VARIETIES THAT BECOME MORE PRESTIGIOUS


THAN OTHERS, BUT THERE IS NO VARIETY BETTER THAN THE
OTHER: THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT.
Regional dialects
They are known for having
stereotyped pronunciation

Latin

Western (US) Outback


ISOGLOSSES ANDDIALECT BOUNDARIES
The more isoglosses youget,
Isoglosses the easier you identifya
refer to
DIALECT BOUNDARY

The line that


represents the
boundary between
areas with
differences in the
speech
*The dialect continuum:
It is a group of dialects spoken in a
geographical region that share linguistic
features and possess mutual inteligibility.
Nonetheless, that inteligibility dicreases when
we move within the area, finding that, at one
point, dialects are no longersimilar.
BILINGUALISM
result of

Regional variation Personal background

Canada Personal experiences

Ex: Parents of different


Ex: English and French
mother tongues

Usually, countries are assumed tobe


LANGUAGE monolingual
PLANNING Thus, all language minorities can beincluded
in society
Pidgin Creole

It developes for It is what follows aPidgin


trading purposes
It is a languageused
It is the first step in the
formation of a
by a community
language
It has grammar
It has no grammar structures and native
structures, native speakers speakers
nor a writtenform

It is justspoken It is both spoken and written

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