This document discusses language variation and regional dialects. It defines key linguistic concepts such as accent, dialect, isoglosses, dialect boundaries, dialect continuum, bilingualism, diglossia, pidgins, and creoles. Government and educational organizations must determine which language varieties to use for official business. The document provides information on linguistic geography and how an idealized language variety is not associated with any specific region.

1. ISFD N°41 Language and Written Expression
Teacher: Stella Maris SAUBIDET OYHAMBURU
GROUP 7

2.  Language and regional
variation
Language has a lot of variation,especially in
the way it is spoken.
LINGUISTIC GEOGRAPHY.

3.  An idealized variety of language,
it has no specific region.
Associated with:
Administrative, commercial and
educational centers.

4.  Accent: it is restricted to the description
of aspects of pronunciation that identify
where an individual speaker is from,
regionally or socially.
 Dialect: used to describe features of
grammar and vocabulary as well as aspects
of pronunciation.

5.  Regional dialects.
 Isoglosses and dialect boundaries
 The dialect continuum

6.  Bilingualism: countries where two quite
distinct and different languages are used as
official languages.
 Diglossia: there is a “low” variety of a
language, acquire locally and used for
everyday affairs, and a “high” or special
variety, learned at school and used for
important matters.

7.  Government, legal and educational
organizations in many countries have
to plan which variety or varieties of
the languages spoken in the country
are to be used for official business.

8.  Pidgins: or “contact” languge, is a variety
of a language that developed for some
practical purpose, such as trading, among
groups of people who had a lot of contact,
but who did not know each other’s
languages.
 Creoles: when a pidgins develops beyond
its role as a trade or contact language and
becomes the first language of a social
community.

9. Yule, G. (2010). The study of Language.
Unit 18 U.K.: CUP.