LING 102 Part 2

Describes a group of people who speak the same dialect. affected by factors such as geographic area, economic class, age, or gender.

One speech style to another. Occurs different degrees of speech such as formal vs. informal, casual vs. careful

group of mutually intelligible varieties congregated in adjacent geographic areas

Geographic boundary marking where a certain linguistic feature is found.

speakers of different but related languages, can understand each other with out study extraordinary effort.

Officially recognized register. Speech often spoken by people of a higher socioeconomic class

Locally recognized register. Non standard variety spoken in a certain speech community

No such thing, because the standard dialect depends on your environment.

That it is a broken language.... it lowers the standard of english

• Socioeconomic class
• Age
• Gender
• Ethnicity