ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Idiolect, Fuck, Semantic Change
30 Sep 2020
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Language use depends on who is using it and on the situation in which it is used; it also changes over time. Language variation is generally reserved for the first two of them: variation: differences in the way a language is used that depend on who is using it. Idiolect: personal way of speaking and writing, with certain identifiable features. By language variety we generally mean a distinctive way of speaking (writing) which is common to a particular group of language > speech community. It is made up of people who, as a result of living or interacting together more or less closely over a period of time, have developed their own distinctive set of socially agreed norms. Speech community vary depending on the nature and the intensity of the interaction between their members, and they exist on different levels. At the highest, all speakers of a particular language form such a community below are various kinds of sub-community.
