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This document defines key terms related to regional dialects and linguistic boundaries. It discusses how regional dialects are forms of language specific to an area. Isoglosses are lines on maps that show where linguistic features change from one variety to another, helping define dialect boundaries. Dialect continua exist across boundaries, and speakers may use multiple dialects. Understanding dialects and isoglosses provides insight into regional linguistic variation and identity.
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This document discusses language, dialects, and registers. It begins by defining the difference between a language and dialect, noting that a dialect is a regional variety of a larger language. It then discusses two types of dialects: geographical/regional dialects, which vary based on geographic location; and social dialects, also called sociolects, which vary based to social factors like occupation, age, or class. Finally, it defines language registers as levels of formality, outlining five main registers from frozen to intimate and factors like audience and purpose that influence register choice.
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2. All language users speak with an accent and dialect, with accent describing aspects of pronunciation and dialect describing grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation variations.
3. Isoglosses represent boundaries between linguistic features in dialects, and clusters of isoglosses define dialect boundaries across regions.
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1) Internal variation refers to different ways of expressing the same meaning within a language like "lorry-truck" or "underground-subway".
2) A dialect is a variety of a language spoken by a group that has systematic differences in structure or vocabulary compared to other varieties.
3) An idiolect is the unique variety of language used by an individual based on their personal vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciations.
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This document discusses various types of language variation including dialects, sociolects, idiolects, registers, pidgins, and creoles. It notes that dialects are varieties of a language used by a specific group that share non-linguistic characteristics. Pidgins develop for communication between groups that don't share a common language, while creoles emerge when a pidgin becomes a community's native language.
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This document discusses language variation and varieties. It defines key terms such as language, dialect, and varieties. Some main points:
- No two speakers speak exactly the same way and an individual's speech varies across situations.
- Language varieties refer to different forms of language influenced by social factors like region, social class, individual, and situation.
- A dialect is a language variety spoken by a community that has distinguishing phonological, lexical, and grammatical features.
- Varieties refer to sets of linguistic items associated with external social factors like a geographical area and social group.
- Dialects are influenced by various social factors and everyone speaks at least one dialect. Standard dialects have more prestige than others due
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- 3. Group members Kainat fatima Rida fatima Waqas Ahmed Ahsan shafiq
- 4. Contents Definitions Regional dialects Accents and dialects Diaglosses Diatechology dialects boundaries Signifance
- 5. Regional : A way of describing the spatial areas, the concept of regions is important and widely used among the many branches of geography, each of which can describe the areas in regional term.
- 6. Dialects: Form of the area language spoken in a certain area or district.
- 7. Isoglosses : Line drawn on the language map to indicate the geographic boundary of a region where in a particular linguistic.
- 9. Accent and dialects It is a myth that some speakers have accent while the do not . We might feel that we feel some people have distinct or easily recognized, but every language speaks with an accent. Which is use to describe features of grammar and vocabulary as well as the aspects of pronunciation.
- 10. diaglosses A rather special situation involving two distinct variety of a language is called diaglosses exists in some countries. In diagnoses there is low variety acquired locally and usually used for everyday affair, and a high, or special variety learned in school and use for important matters.
- 11. DIATECHOLOGY to distinguish between two dialects of the same language (whose speaker can usually understand each other) and two different languages (whose speakers can not usually understand each other).
- 13. Isoglosses and dialects boundaries This line is called the isoglosses and represent a boundary between the areas with regard to that a particular linguistic item.
- 15. Benefits of dialects The drawing of isoglosses and dialects boundaries is quite useful in establishing a broad view of regional dialects, one dialect or language variety emerges from one to another.
- 16. We can view the regional variation as existing along a dialect continuum rather than having a sharp breaks from one region to the next.
- 17. Speakers who moves back and forth across one boundary to another area, using different varieties from an ease, may be describe as the BIDIALECTS. (i.e speaking two dialects)
- 18. Most of us grow up with the some form of bidilectalism ,speaking one dialect “in the street among the family and friends, and having to learn another dialect in school”
- 19. Conclusion: Language is significant and the identity of the region. Isoglosses helps in the understanding the of language in varieties of ways.
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