Language Identity Accent and Dialect

1. The language is basically a collection of dialects, where speakers of different dialect in the same language can understand each other.

2. Dialect is used both for local varieties of English.

2.1. Dialect is often thought of as standing outside the language

3. the language is basically a collection of dialects, where speakers of different dialect in the same language can understand each other.

4. Difference between accent and dialect

5. There are some connotation of inferiority about people who speak dialect, due to dialect is excluded from the polite society.

6. When a language is standardized it becomes possible or easy to teach it in a deliberate manner, and it could take different dimensions.

6.1. On ideological dimensions are: social, cultural and sometimes political, beyond the purely linguistic ones.

7. The standardization also requires that a measure of agreement be achieved about what is in the language and what is not.

8. There are some criteria such as: standardization, vitality, historicity, autonomy, reduction, mixture, and de facto norms, that maybe used to distinguish certain language from others.

9. Differents kind of language.

9.1. standarization

9.1.1. refers to the process by which a language has been codiefied in some way.

9.2. vitality

9.2.1. refers to the existence of a living community of speakers

9.3. historicity

9.3.1. refers to the fact that a particular group of people find a sense of identity through using a particular language

9.4. autonomy

9.4.1. a language be felt by its speakers to be different from other language

9.5. reduction

9.5.1. refer to the fact that a particular variety may be regarded as a sub-variety rather than as an independent entity

9.6. mixture

9.6.1. refers to feelings speakers have about the "purity" of the variety they speak.

10. Happen the same with Caribbean people from South America and center America their look like could be similar but their accent and intonation could be differents.

11. Speakers of language have never seriously adopted patois as a term to be usedin the description of language.

12. A languague has more power than any of its dialect.

13. Dialect such a variety of a specific language that is used by a specific group of speakers with their phonological and gramatical markers.

14. The language is a ethnic-building that involved social factors like age, gender, occupation and socio-econmic status of a group of people.

14.1. e.g. A person may be surprised when to find another person who appears to be a specific region and does not speak the particular language of the region.

15. There exist a standardization that refers to the process in which a language is codified in some way.

16. Author stated in the introductory chapter that all languages exhibit internal variation,that is, each language have. For example, they are Chinese, Japanese, or Korean and they speak.Chinese, Japanese, and Korean respectively.