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| context-depedent alternation among different registers of same language |
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| context-dependent alternation between more distinct lects or even languages |
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| two languages mingled in same sentence |
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| metaphorical code switching |
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| tendency to switch codes (language or language variety) in conversation in order to discuss a topic that would normally fall into another conversational domain |
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| language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a mother tongue, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both mother tongues |
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| situational code-switching |
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| alternation between varieties redefines a situation, being a change in governing norms |
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| code choice that allows is to imagine ourselves in the shoes of some other or others |
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| (Received Pronunciation) an accent that allows one to be received into the better parts of society |
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| list of funny words that someone hears in a locality |
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| studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their associated features. Dialectology treats such topics as divergence of two local dialects from a common ancestor and synchronic variation. |
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| eographical boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or use of some syntactic feature |
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| collection of linguistic maps, which are thematic maps showing the geographic distribution of the speakers of a language, or isoglosses of a dialect continuum of the same language. |
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| simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common. It is most commonly employed in situations such as trade |
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| a stable, natural language that originates from a pidgin that has become nativized (that is, acquired by children as their primary language) |
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| describe the mechanism of language change by which one language replaces much or all of its lexicon, including basic vocabulary, with that of another language, without drastic change to its grammar |
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| a range of dialects spoken across some geographical area that differ only slightly between neighboring areas, but as one travels in any direction, these differences accumulate such that speakers from opposite ends of the continuum are no longer mutually intelligible |
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| used as one of the justifications of standardization, the feeling that a language has a long and rich history |
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| capacity of a rational individual to make an informed, un-coerced decision |
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| any language that is considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics. It can refer to pidgins, creoles, dialects, and other forms of native or local speech, but not commonly to jargon or slang |
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| constructed international auxiliary language, idea was to create a easy-to-learn and politically neutral language that would foster peace and international understanding between people with different regional and/or national languages |
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| creole spoken throughout Papua New Guinea. It is an official language of Papua New Guinea and the most widely used language in that country. |
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| a creole language spoken by an African American population living on the Sea Islands and the coastal region of the U.S. states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and northeast Florida |
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| the theory that African languages are the descendants of creoles |
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| Bickerton - can account for the structural similarities between such creole languages via assuming the existence of a language bioprogram - an innate mechanism or ‘biological blueprint’ - which is ‘applied’ whenever there is abrupt creolization. This language bioprogram creates typical creole features. |
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| The variety of speech that is closest to a standard prestige language, especially in an area in which a creole is spoken |
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| A less prestigious dialect or variety of a particular language |
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| any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect |
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| intermediate levels between a language on top and an original creole |
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| the process of standardizing and developing a norm for a language |
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| technique uses recorded voices speaking first in one dialect or language, then in another. Listeners do not know that the speech samples are from the same person, but judge the two guises of the same speaker as two separate speakers |
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| Durkheim - "personal feeling of a lack of social norms; normlessness". It describes the breakdown of social norms and values. |
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