GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Isogloss, Official Language, Distance Decay

• School: UConn
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1000
• Professor: Awanti Acharya, Hui Wang

Document Summary

There will be two questions on the upcoming exam based on figures. One of the most important mechanisms for maintaining our culture. Dialect: variations due to the region one lives in (yall in the south) Variations occur through external contact, like linguistic blends (bilingualism). Dialect geography: variations due to social status or friend group words from other languages, study of dialects across space, there will be more variations in speaking than there are in writing. Spatial interaction for spoken word has greater distance decay than written word: isogloss lines. Delineate places which use linguistic features in the same manner. Language family diversity is greater in the old world than the new: number of speakers and territorial size of language/language family can be increased through conquest. This is always at the expense of others: standard language. Way a language is written and spoken due to formal rules for diction and grammar: official language.