ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Language Contact, Semantic Change, Braj Kachru
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A standard variety of language meets the following criteria: Its rules are codified in dictionaries and other reference works. It is the variety used by the country s public authorities in communicating with one another and with its citizens. Pluricentric, when a language is used in more than one country and has several distinct standard varieties. Standard varieties tend to be associated with power centers. Accent is the best-known feature of this variety, its particular way particular way of pronouncing the sounds of english which is known as received pronunciation. = distinctive way in which language is used by a geographically based community. As is suggested by the adage that a language is a dialect plus an army and a navy, power issues are also involved. For those languages with a written form an important factor will be the extent to which those norms have been documented in grammar books and dictionaries and applied in literary works.
