Chapter 18.
DESCRIPTION
REFLECTIONS ON EACH TOPIC
For me this is a important chapter for learn more about the variation
of language, Variation is a characteristic of language: there is more
We have been talking about languages such as English, Spanish or Swahili as
if there was a single variety of each in everyday use. That is, we have largely
than one way of saying the same thing. Speakers may vary
ignored the fact that every language has a lot of variation, especially in the pronunciation accent, word choice (lexicon), or morphology and
way it is spoken. If we just look at English, we find widespread variation in the syntax sometimes called "grammar".
way it is spoken in different countries such as Australia, Britain and the USA.
We can also find a range of varieties in different parts of those countries, with
Lee Tonouchi’s account of “Trick-O-Treat” in Hawai’I as just.