Theories Of The English Language

As I already mentioned above, there are many subcategories of the English language. In order to know English Linguistics, we have to be aware of regional and social and variability. When I attended the classes of The study of language I became aware of the tremendous differences of American, Australian and British English. It is evidence how territorial boundaries affect language development. Long time ago, American, Australian and British English were the same, but today, we are able to see a clear distinction between them. People from different places speak differently, but even within the same community, people might speak differently according to their ethnicity and social or educational background. This presents numerous variations within

To paraphrase Saussure, social separation, not geographic separation, is the most general force in linguistic diversity. The rise of sociolinguistics in the last 35 years can be viewed as a natural response by dialectologists to the new social conditions, whereby scholars studying linguistic variation recognized the need to increase the number and kind of independent variables as correlates of linguistic variation. Instead of seeking linguistic variation in insular and isolated regions, now precious few and far between, sociolinguists look for correlates with class, sex, age, ethnicity, and other independent variables in urban

When people from different regions come together, they bring with them numerous differences, great and small, some in their speech. Then, after some tome, all these differences blend and I am not sure which is my mother tongue. It is some kind of mixture of three official languages in Bosnia and Hercegovina which not so long time ago were the same language.

Nevertheless, I am highly interested in the variations of the British English language. I was surprised when I heard the Scottish dialect for the first time. There are differences in accent, vocabulary and grammar. I need to explore on the internet many words which I found in Robert Burns’ poetry. It was strange for me that the dialects of the same language can be so different. In our class, we had to translate the poems on Modern English and then we were able to read and understand them. I would like to illustrate it with an example of his poem To a