Essay Archive - Diversity Within English
Diversity Within English
In order to understand how language variation descriptors are used, we
first must understand what language variation is. We can say that the U.S. is
linguistically diverse because of the multitude of languages spoken here, but
we can also find diversity within these languages. All languages have both
dialectical variations and registral variations. These variations, or dialects,
can differ in lexicon, phonology, and/or syntax from the Standard Language that
we often think of as Ścorrect' Language, although they are not necessarily less
proper than, say, Standard English. It depends on wher....
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