Varieties of Language

R.A.Hudson
Presented by Amirali Mojtahedzadeh
How is language related to society?

- Global Statements

- Specific Statements
Global linguistic and social categories

Language
X Dialect Y

Community
Z
Linguistic Items

 What is a linguistic item?

Linguistic Items

 Sound Patterns

 Items of Vocabulary

 Syntactic Paterns
Linguistic Items

 Sound Patterns Sounds

 Items of Vocabulary Lexical Items

 Syntactic Paterns Constructions

Language
 L1
L3

Language
L2
 Variety 3

Variety 1 L1
L3

Language
L2

Variety 2
What makes a variety of language
different from another?

 Language Items

So…. what is a variety of language?

A Variety of language is….

A set of linguistic items with similar

social distribution

In other words what makes one variety of language different from

another is the linguistic items that it includes, so we may define a
variety of language as a set of linguistic items with similar social
distribution.
 French
English London English

Varieties of Language
…
The English of football
commentaries
Variety
Dialects
Languages

Registers
(style)
What are some examples of “variety”?

 All the languages of some multilingual speaker

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 A language
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 A handful of items