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Varieties and Registers of Spoken and Written Language
Varieties and Registers of Spoken and Written Language
Varieties and Registers of Spoken and Written Language
REGISTERS OF
SPOKEN AND
WRITTEN
LANGUAGE
Language
The method of human
communication, either spoken
or written, consisting of the use
of words in a structured and
conventional way.
Spoken Language
- A language
produced by
articulate sounds, as
opposed to a written
language
Written Language
- Is the representation
of a spoken or gestural
language by means of a
writing system.
Language Varieties
In Sociolinguistics, language
variety is also called LECT –
is a general term for any
distinctive form of a
language or linguistic
expression.
A. Standard Language or
Standard Variety
may be defined either as a language variety
used by a population for public purposes or
as a variety that has undergone
standardization.