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Language and dialect. (first-year course: The Talking Animal, Autumn 2009). What do we mean by: language ? dialect ?. ?. Language.

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  1. Language and dialect (first-year course: The Talking Animal, Autumn 2009)

  2. What do we mean by:language? dialect? ? Language • Some possible definitions: Languages are divided into dialects Dialects are regional varieties of language Dialects are regional and social varieties of languageBut first we have to ask: what do we mean by a language? dialects

  3. ei stein e sten 20 km Eidskog Eda

  4. Eda Eid stein sten

  5. Stock- holm Oslo ← dialect continuum →

  6. Stock- holm Oslo Eid Eda

  7. Stock- holm Oslo Eid Eda Norwegian Swedish socio-political entities

  8. Dialect continua in Europe

  9. Gorb Garobia Porkistan Langauge B Porki Language A Language B A national border in a dialect continuum

  10. Nanamai Banandia Gorskch Pthsiskt Language A Language B bilingual area A national border between two different language families

  11. Dialect continua in Europe

  12. What is a dialect?What a language? Popular understanding: A dialect is a type of language spoken by uneducated or country people. It is a corrupt form of the “correct” language. It is derived from the “corrrect” form. Those who speak the language “correctly” do not speak “dialect”.

  13. What is a dialect?What a language? Or: A language is a collection of dialects, one of which has been adopted as the standard variety, which people think of as “the language”. The standard variety is simply another dialect.

  14. A dialect becomes a standard: Selection. The dialect of the ruling or most influential class is adopted as the standard. Literacy. It acquires a written form. Standardizaton. Grammars and dictionaries are composed, spelling becomes fixed, and are competing grammatical or spelling forms current, one is adopted as correct and the other(s) are deemed incorrect. Elaboration. Its vocabulary increases with cultural, philosophical, technological and scientific development.

  15. the standard language: “French”, “German” Social axis REGIONAL DIALECTS Geographical axis

  16. Norsk Svenska Eidskog Eda

  17. To Sweden, 1658

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  19. Weinreich 1945 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy "Vos iz der khilek fun a dialekt biz a shprakh?" Ikh hob gemeynt, az es ruft zikh im der maskilisher bitl, un ikh hob im gepruvt aroyffirn afn rikhtikn veg, nor er hot mikh ibergerisn "Dos veys ikh, ober ikh vel aykh gebn a besere definitsye. A shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot."