Sociolinguistics

1. Introduction to Language
Variation
Hello!
Hi!
What´s up!
What´s
going on!
Internal Variation
•Having different ways
of expressing the same
meaning.

2. Varieties
Different
Types of
Language
Variation
A particular form of a language spoken by a specific group of people.

3. When a group
of Speakers of a
Particular
language
Differs noticeably
In its speech from
Another group.
Dialects
Systematic differences in terms of
structural or lexical features.
(Every person speaks a dialect of this or
her native language.
If speech are mutually intelligible but differ sistematically therefore
are dialects of the same language

4. Dialect continuum
Hello!
Bello!
Vello!
Wello!
Hallo!

5. Extralinguistics factors: region, socioeconomic status, and etchnicity.
Influenced by:
Regional,
Social
Cultural
Factors.

6. Idiolects
The form of a language spoken by one person
is known as an Idiolect.