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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 Handbook of Language Variation and Change. This outstanding multi-volume series covers all the major subdisciplines within linguistics today and, when complete, will offer a comprehensive survey of linguistics as a whole. Already published. The Handbook of Child Language. Edited by Paul Fletcher and Brian MacWhinney.
Summary. As Edward Sapir remarked (1921: 147), “everyone knows that language is variable.” Variability in language is within everyone's experience of using and listening to language, and most people show some degree of interest in it.
- James Milroy, Lesley Milroy
- 2017
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.
23 de jun. de 2019 · Abstract. This chapter focuses on the branch of sociolinguistics which has come to be recognized as “language variation and change (LVC)” or “variationist sociolinguistics”. It firstly ...
Founded by William Labov, Language Variation and Change is the only journal dedicated exclusively to the study of linguistic variation and the capacity to deal with systematic and inherent variation in synchronic and diachronic linguistics. Sociolinguistics involves analysing the interaction of language, culture and society; the more specific ...
26 de mai. de 2022 · The range of languages for which a substantial body of variationist studies exists is alarmingly limited. English alone accounts for the great majority, followed by Spanish, Portuguese (mainly Brazilian), French (mainly Canadian), and a few other European languages.
