Idiolect is the dialect of an individual person at one time. This term implies an awareness that no two persons speak in exactly the same way Pidg·in- A simplified form of speech that is usually a mixture of two or more languages, has a rudimentary grammar and vocabulary, is used for communication between groups speaking different languages, and is not spoken as a first or native language. Also called contact language. Cockney accents: Cockney speakers have a distinctive accent and dialect, and occasionally use rhyming slang.; the extensive glottalisation, monophthongisation, Cockney speech is full of vocalisation of /l/. Creole- is a pidgin which has become the mother tongue of a community,” and therefore has native speakers. Vocabulary is extensively borrowed from other languages. Sociolect- is a variety of language associated with a social group such as a socioeconomic class, an ethnic group (precisely termedethnolect), an age group, etc. Jargon- is language that is specific to a particular profession or a particular group of people who share a common interest. Isogloss - is the geographical boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or use of some syntactic feature. Noah Webster -wrote a number of books on AmE language and he is known for making Standard AmE; American English started to be more and more different; “The American Spelling Book”; he published the first good dictionary: “The American Dictionary of the English Language”: a coursebook used in American schools to teach children reading and writing, he shows differences in American spelling (AmE:BrE; color-colour, center-centre, jail-gad, ax-axe); he divided multisyllabic words into syllables.
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Australian E: - Australia English is undoubtedly the dominant form of English in Antipodes, British people would see strange animals and they took names for them from the Aborigins: koala, weak education: in most cases people who went there were poor educated; occurrence of slang expressions, these from BrE are still to be found in Australian English but no longer in BrE East&West Africa- the majority of white people spoke Afrikaans, English minority spoke Bantu languages, in Africa English doesn`t really resemble standard English or any of them; but grammar and vocabulary are standard; but there are grammar and pronunciation problems , they don`t distinguish between long and short vowels they translate their own expressions into English. India-Indian English: strange collocations, different idioms, speaking English with mistakes; their English is non-standard,General Pronunciation in India is different, vocabulary is the major problem. after World War II when India gained independence there were 14 languages that were official, it is standard now but with some interference of local languages. Differences in pronoun: 1. nouns ending in –ogue(catalogue) in BrE are shortened to –og in AmE:catalog, 2. verbs ending with an unstressed syllable vowel + consonant, the British double the final consonant before –ing and –ed: canceling cancelling 3. In words, -er in AmE is often equivalent to –re in BrE: liter litre 4. some words spelled –ense in AmE have –ence in BrE: defense defence 5. there are some spelling differences that are unique to particular words:pajamas, pyjamas |
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Idiolect is the dialect of an individual person at one time. This term implies an awareness that no two persons speak in exactly the same way Pidg·in- A simplified form of speech that is usually a mixture of two or more languages, has a rudimentary grammar and vocabulary, is used for communication between groups speaking different languages, and is not spoken as a first or native language. Also called contact language. Cockney accents: Cockney speakers have a distinctive accent and dialect, and occasionally use rhyming slang.; the extensive glottalisation, monophthongisation, Cockney speech is full of vocalisation of /l/. Creole- is a pidgin which has become the mother tongue of a community,” and therefore has native speakers. Vocabulary is extensively borrowed from other languages. Sociolect- is a variety of language associated with a social group such as a socioeconomic class, an ethnic group (precisely termedethnolect), an age group, etc. Jargon- is language that is specific to a particular profession or a particular group of people who share a common interest. Isogloss - is the geographical boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or use of some syntactic feature. Noah Webster -wrote a number of books on AmE language and he is known for making Standard AmE; American English started to be more and more different; “The American Spelling Book”; he published the first good dictionary: “The American Dictionary of the English Language”: a coursebook used in American schools to teach children reading and writing, he shows differences in American spelling (AmE:BrE; color-colour, center-centre, jail-gad, ax-axe); he divided multisyllabic words into syllables.
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Australian E: - Australia English is undoubtedly the dominant form of English in Antipodes, British people would see strange animals and they took names for them from the Aborigins: koala, weak education: in most cases people who went there were poor educated; occurrence of slang expressions, these from BrE are still to be found in Australian English but no longer in BrE East&West Africa- the majority of white people spoke Afrikaans, English minority spoke Bantu languages, in Africa English doesn`t really resemble standard English or any of them; but grammar and vocabulary are standard; but there are grammar and pronunciation problems , they don`t distinguish between long and short vowels they translate their own expressions into English. India-Indian English: strange collocations, different idioms, speaking English with mistakes; their English is non-standard,General Pronunciation in India is different, vocabulary is the major problem. after World War II when India gained independence there were 14 languages that were official, it is standard now but with some interference of local languages. Differences in pronoun: 1. nouns ending in –ogue(catalogue) in BrE are shortened to –og in AmE:catalog, 2. verbs ending with an unstressed syllable vowel + consonant, the British double the final consonant before –ing and –ed: canceling cancelling 3. In words, -er in AmE is often equivalent to –re in BrE: liter litre 4. some words spelled –ense in AmE have –ence in BrE: defense defence 5. there are some spelling differences that are unique to particular words:pajamas, pyjamas |
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