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Pidgin. Another variation on language is the creation, often naturally, of pidgin languages. This occurs in most cases via trade. When one language meets another and people need to trade for economic purposes, a pidgin, not a bird but rather a mixture of the two languages that can be understood by both parties, forms.
The term ethnolect is often preferred by those studying ethnic groups, geolect by those concerned with geographical differences and regiolect by those concerned with the study of macro-languages such as Chinese, Malay and Arabic which contain mutually incomprehensible varieties of the same major language. accent.
5 de jan. de 2023 · English is the most widely-spoken language in the world, having the distinct status of being the official language of multiple countries. While the English language is uniform with major variations in spelling present between American English and British English, the dialect or accent is usually the factor that enables one to distinguish the various types of English out there.
Within the social matrix in which [a child] acquires a system of grammar, a child acquires also a system of its use, regarding persons, places, purposes, other modes of communication, etc. – all the components of communicative events, together with attitudes and beliefs regarding them.
1.1 Synchronic variation. All languages that we can observe today show variation; what is more, they vary in identical ways, namely geographically and socially. These two parameters, along which variation occurs, are in principle inde-pendent of each other, although we shall see that there are ways in which they (and others to be discussed ...
Chambers (1995) provides two basic causes for any language variations: naturalistic and socially-constructed explanations. Chambers argues that the underlying cause of sociolinguistic variation is the human instinct to establish and maintain social identity (p. 250).Therefore, the recognition of “new varieties” of English has not ...
