LANGUAGE, DIALCT AND VARIETIES

By group 2

Dikkky Fradana

Fenny Dwi Yanti

Susi Lestari

Variety is a set of linguistic items with similar distribution, a definition that allows us to say that all of the following are varieties: Canadian English, London English, the English of football commentaries, and so on.

Regional variation in the way a language is spoken is likely to provide one of the easiest ways of observing variety in language.

The term dialect can also be used to describe differences in speech associated with various social groups or classes. There are social dialects as well as regional ones. An immediate problem is that of defining social group  or social class ; giving proper weight to the various factors that can be used to determine social position, e.g., occupation, place of residence, education, ‘new’ versus ‘old’ money, income, racial or ethnic origin, cultural background, caste, religion, and so on. Such factors as these do appear to be related fairly directly to how people speak.

Style of language is the way to speak, it can be normally or very normally or even nothing at all. It depends your choice being governed circumstances.

Registers are sets of language items associated with discrete occupational or social groups. Surgeons, airline pilots, bank managers, sales clerks, jazz fans, and pimps employ different registers.

Questions :

Mike : why is sociolect more related to social than geographic background ?

Answer : sociolect or social dialet is a variety of language associated with a social group such as a socioeconomic class, an ethnic group, an age group, etc.so why more related to social  ? because in geographic background is just a certain region uses specific phonological, mhorphosyntactic or lexical rules. It is different if it is social because it will consider to many aspects.

Ratna : could you give more example the main difference between social and regional dialect ?

Answer : Regional dialect is spoken is likely to provide one of the easiest ways of observing variety in language (e.g minangnese, bataknese, and bahasa). While social dialect is giving proper weight to the various factors that can be used to determine social position (e.g., occupation, place of residence, education, ‘new’ versus ‘old’ money, income, racial or ethnic origin, cultural background, caste, religion)

Asep : please explain the differences among language, dialect and accent!

Answer : 1. Language is a device/tool to communicate . 2. Dialect is  a regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronounciation, grammar and vocabulary. 3. Accent is the way to speak in one language but different pronountiation from one people to other people.

TM : how can one language be different with other languages ?

Answer : it can be influenced by many factor, like social class, geographic or regional, culture, and etc.