LANGUAGE, DIALECT, AND VARIETIES

Languange, Dialect, and Varities

1. Language is  the method of human communication either spoken or written,  consisting of the use of words  in a structured and conventional way.
Language varieties refers to the various forms of language triggered by social factors, language may changes from to region, from social status to another, from individual to individual and from situation to situation.

2. Dialects is the varieties of language characteristics of group of speaker.
Idiolects the speech variety of an individual speaker.

3. According to Hudson(1980: 24) varieties is a set of linguistic items with similar distribution. Ferguson (1971: 30) any body of human speech pattern which sufficiently homogeneous to be analyzed by available techniques of syncrhonic description and which has a sufficiently large repertory of elements or process with broad enough semantic scope to function in all normal context of communication. 

The question

1. What is the different of Dialect and Accent? (Shelvira Elsa Dwita)
Answer : Dialect is form of language that is spoken in a certain area. And accents is the way we pronounce word on the other hand dialect are local varieties of language.

2. How do we know where is the speaker origin, regional of people based on their dialect by using the same language?
(Nurul Fathia Salma)
Answer :  the dialect of region can be known based on the sound, pressure, the decress of the tone and the short length of the language sound referring on the a particular area.

3. How the distinguish slang and idiom?
(Fariza Azkiya Ali)
Answer : slang is a type of language that informal dam playful.  And idiom are expression that have meaning different from the dictionary definition of the individual words in the expression.

4. Do our dialect changes if we go abroad of 3 months?
(Ester Mayer)
Answer: it is depend on person. If the person can be adaptation fast, the dialect can be changes.