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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1. BACKGROUND
Speakers have various ways of saying the same thing. It may arise from the mechanical
limitations of the speech organs for instance speaker may not be fully under the speakers
control. The choice of linguistically elements is done by consciously or unconsciously. Two or
more distinct but linguistically equivalent variants represent the existence of a linguistic variable
(Llamas et al., 2007). Linguistic variable is linguistic unit or a sociolinguistic has variant in
lexical and grammatical, but are most often phonological. For instance British English is (h)
which stands for the presence or absence of /h/ in words such as hammer, house and hill.
Chicano English the levelling of past tense be in We was there, (Llamas et al., 2007). Speakers
in Aberdeen, North-East Scotland may choose between the terms boy, loon, loonie, lad or laddie
when referring to a young male person, or between quine, quinie, lass, lassie, or girl in reference
to a young female. Different words refer to the same things; therefore we can conclude that each
language has a number of varieties (Wardhaugh, 2006).
The terms of variety language are emerged due to different systems reflecting different
varieties of the human condition. Variety is a specific set of linguistic items or human speech
patterns (presumably, sounds, words, grammatical features, etc.) which we can connect with
some external factor apparently, a geographical area or a social group (Hudson, 1996; Ferguson,
1972 and Wardhaugh, 2006). Languages can be at variance in lexical, grammatical, phonological
and other ways depends on different social, geographical and other circumstances determine
what elements will be needed and, therefore developed, and for that reason sociolinguistics
believe that such unique sets of items or patterns do exist (Wardhaugh, 2006).
1.2. PROBLEM
1. What is language and dialect?
2. What is regional dialects?
3. What is social dialects?
4. What is styles, registers and beliefs?
1.3. OBJECTIVES
1. To know what is language and dialects.
2. To know what is regional dialects.
3. To know what is social dialects.
4. To know what is styles, registers and beliefs.
CHAPTER 2
DISCUSSION
CHAPTER 3
CONCLUSION
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