Language versus Dialect, Study notes of English

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LANGUAGE

VERSUS

DIALECT

What is

Language?

What is dialect?

LANGUAG

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A language is a method of

human communication, either

spoken or written, consisting

of the use of words in a

structured and conventional

way and it is a system of

communication used by a

particular country or

community.

Dialect is a collection of

attributes (phonetic,

phonological, syntactic,

morphological, and semantic)

that one group of speakers

DIALEC

T

HOW CAN WE

DISTINGUISH DIALECT

AND LANGUAGE?

There’s no objective difference between a language and dialect, and the boundaries between them are significantly blurred. However, there’s a way to determine the difference between them. Mutual Intelligibility - two dialects converse fluently with one another although they speak a different variety of the language. e.g. British vs. American vs. Irish vs. New Zealand (= dialects of English)

• (^) Variety is a term used for to replace both terms.
• Hudson (1980) says “a set of linguistic items with similar distribution” “A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.” - Max Weinreich

FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO VARIATION 1.Social situation 2.Occupation

**3. Age

4. Geography 5.Education
5. Gender
6. Social status/class
7. Ethnicity.**

Accent: affect the way that a language is pronounced. They can vary hugely within a country but, as a general rule, an accent relates to pronunciation only. When different regions use different Accen t

LINKS FOR SOURCES:

https://blog.e2language.com/dialect-and-language-differences/ https://www.barebones-translations.com/post/language-versus-dialect- understanding-the-difference https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/01/difference- between-language-dialect/424704/ https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/sarihafizh/language-dialect-and-varieties- 32177134 https://www.tomedes.com/translator-hub/difference-language-dialect https://prezi.com/j2uwmywdwfna/language-and-dialect/? frame=3f7c26d2781a4bb883fc34cc7372867ac268c06a https://prezi.com/ewm-cfkrqza6/language-vs-dialect/? frame=05dfe0a18151c8923c4268f40c47489136c11e Reporter:Micaiah Grace B. Impante

Mr. Emit and Mr. Esmabe ask you to

connect Language Contact and Language

Borrowing.

Language contact is the Process

or the act of having interaction

and communication between

different societies that leads to

a transfer of Linguistic features.

While Linguistic Borrowing is

loan words that We Acquire

from practicing language

contact.