Sociolinguistic Variation of the English Language


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1.3. Language variation

  • Language variation presupposes that we have at our disposal a range of means allowing to speak about the same things in a variety of ways. Two important points have to be made in this respect: that variation can occur at different levels of language system and that it can be determined by different factors.
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1.3. Language variation


principally an abstract representation of the source of variation. Realised by two or more variants.
the actual realisation of a variable. Analogous to the phonetic realisations of a phoneme.

is a relatively neutral term used to refer to languages and dialects.
A variable
A variant
A variety

1.3. Language variation

1.3.1. Variation on different levels of language system


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