Linguistic variation 1

1 Outubro 2019, 12:00 • Hugo Canelas Cardoso

- The dichotomy between language and dialect (cont.).

- Dimensions of linguistic variation:

a) Diachronic variation [Examples: the diachrony of English and Portuguese];
b) Diatopic variation [Examples: dialectal variation in the UK, in the USA, and in continental Portugal];
c) Diastratic variation [Examples: African American Vernacular English];
d) Diaphasic variation [Examples: levels of formal address in European Portuguese and English; the Japanese system of honorificity].

- The issue of mutual intelligibility.