Lesson 2

• Spoken language


  The actual use of speech, sounds, or related utterances that convey meaning to share thoughts or information
• Written language


  Communication by means of written symbols/writing system
• Varieties of language


  • Social
  • Historical
  • Spatial
  • Combination of these
• Variety of language


  • Any variant of language which can sufficiently be delimited from one another
  • A general term for any distinctive form of a language or linguistic expression
  • Various form of language triggered by social factors
• Categories of language variety

  • Dialect
  • Register
  • Pidgin
  • Creole
• Dialect


  • Includes the differences in grammar, morphology, vocabulary, syntax, and pronunciation
  • Also refers to the way people speak their native language
• Types of dialect


  • Regional dialect
  • Sociolect
  • Ethnolect
  • Idiolect
• Accent


  Refers to how people pronounce words and how someone speaks another language
• Types of register


  • Frozen
  • Formal
  • Casual
  • Consultative
  • Intimate
• Pidgin


  A simplified language derived from two or more languages used by people who do not share a common language in a given geographical location
• Creole


  A pidgin that is used by native speakers and with fully developed grammar and syntax