| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Dialects | different versions of the same language affected by time, national boundaries, geographical boundaries, gender, age groups, socioeconomic status; the words, usage, and pronunciation characteristics of special localities. |
| Prestige Dialects | associated w/ education and financila success in US instead of English the language of school and business |
| Formal Standard English | One level above standard English |
| FSE | language of the educated Elite |
| FSE | most widely accepted dialect |
| FSE | what we try to teach in schools and what employers want |
| Home Dialect | what people grow up speaking in the home, not formal |
| Bidialectical | able to speak in more than one dialect as the situation demands |
| Nonstandard (nonprestige dialects) | two most pervasive in the US Black English Vernacular and Chicano English, yet nonstandard dialects should not be defined according to ethnicity |
| Standard English | A cintinuum from informal to formal spoken is usually informal written is usually formal |
| Geographical differences | Ya'll vs. You guys "am not" and "ain't" |
| Slang | is a variation in language but is not a dialect limited to a fairly small group of people associated w/young people |
| Jargon | an adult version of slang technical terms used in trades and professional work example lawyer or legal talk that a laymen may need interpreted due to the unfamiliarity |
| Pidgin | a form of language that arises spontaneously when two people speak different languages two or lmore anguages that have been modified to eliminate the more difficult features of the language |
| Creole | a full language with its own grammar, vocabulary, and conventions. spoken by children of speakers of pidgin |
| Decreolization | maintenance of contact with one of the major contributory languages that produced the creole language in the first place |
| Vernacular | the colloquial language of a people a country or locality the nonstandard or substandard everyday speech of a community or locality |
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