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23 de jan. de 2020 · Definition and Examples of Language Varieties. These "lects" refer to the different ways people speak. Bantam 2006. By. Richard Nordquist. Updated on January 23, 2020. In sociolinguistics, language variety—also called lect —is a general term for any distinctive form of a language or linguistic expression.
- Richard Nordquist
The term linguistic variation (or simply variation) refers to regional, social, or contextual differences in the ways that a particular language is used. Variation between languages, dialects, and speakers is known as interspeaker variation. Variation within the language of a single speaker is called intraspeaker variation .
10.2 Language varies. There is substantial variation in language: both within and across language varieties. We’ll see some examples of both of these kinds of variation and I’ll introduce one of the central concepts used in variationist sociolinguistics: the linguistic variable.
In sociolinguistics, a variety, also known as a lect or an isolect, is a specific form of a language or language cluster. This may include languages, dialects, registers, styles, or other forms of language, as well as a standard variety.
Language variants. The word language contains a multiplicity of different designations. Two senses have already been distinguished: language as a universal species-specific capability of the human race and languages as the various manifestations of that capability, as with English, French, Latin, Swahili, Malay, and so on.
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 ...
Variation is a characteristic of language: there is more than one way of saying the same thing in a given language. Variation can exist in domains such as pronunciation (e.g., more than one way of pronouncing the same phoneme or the same word), lexicon (e.g., multiple words with the same meaning), grammar (e.g., different syntactic ...
