ANT253H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dialect Continuum, Mutual Intelligibility, Persian Language
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Dialectical variation: dialects - vary from language in specific, determinable ways. Implying that there has to be a standard from which it derives. There is no dialect that is better or worse. Geography - determines vocabulary, spelling, grammar, dialect. Declare independence politically means to have independence linguistically. I. e. american english vs. british english (no one will say american english is a dialect from british english because of independence of america from britain - same grammar etc. but different spelling - political declaration/statement through language) I. e. canadian dialect = more or less spoken in toronto; whatever is spoken here becomes the norm; vs. the small differences in dialect in newfoundland, prairies etc. Global english = based on american english - main international audience. Speech communities - we all speak a version of the language. No language speech community doesn"t have dialects. Controlled artificial language -> dialect (i. e. emojis)
