1. Standard form of language and dialects
Presented by- Sapna Thakur
B.Ed
2. Dialect
DEFINITION
A variety of a language spoken by a group of people that in a
particular region, not standard language.
A form of a language spoken in a particular geographical area or by
members of a particular social class on occupational group,
distinguished by its vocabulary, grammar, & pronunciation.
3. Characteristics of dialect:
1. Regional variety of a standard form.
2. The utterance of dialect is unique.
3. Maximum time using dialect s influenced by rural
or urban socio-cultural aspects.
4. Dialect can be varied from geographical area to
area.
5. A language could have more than one dialect.
4. “ A dialect is a form of language, peculiar to a specific region”
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5. Some Popular Social Beliefs about Dialects
Dialects are structurally inferior to languages, lacking formal
grammatical rules and standards of speaking;
Dialects are communicatively inferior to languages, lacking the full
range of expressibility found in a formal language;
Dialects are orthographically inferior to languages, lacking their own
system of writing;
In short, dialects are inferior to languages.
FACT: Everyone speaks a dialect
6. The linguistic view of Languages and Dialects.
Dialect: A dialect represents a commonly held way of
speaking for a community, admitting to only minor variations
in structure. (Mutual Intelligibility)
Language: A language consists of a cluster of dialects that
are found to be mutually intelligible.
Two dialects are held to be mutually intelligible when a
speaker of one dialect finds that he can understand, without
too much difficulty the speech of a person speaking another
dialect and vice versa.
7. Dialect
The word dialect was originally borrowed from
Greek language.
In ancient Greece, this word was used to refer to
certain written varieties which were distinct from one
another.
But in English this term is used in a different sense
8. STANDARD LANGUAGE
Standard language is an official form of language.
This kind of form of languages are always artificially modified at
least to some degree.
Standard language is the way to use language in official and
formal situation as in newspapers and public speeches.
The core idea of standard language is to codify a public,
particularly written language so that it is accessible to every
speaker of the language to be used in education, media and
science.
10. Differences between standard language and dialect:
Many time people get confused with the aspect of language and dialect but there is some basic
differences between language and dialect. Virtually dialect is one kind of form which derived from
language. So, the differences are quite transparent and also inevitable. The main differences are:
1. Standard language can has huge speaker and expanded language area comparing that
dialect has
little small language area with less speaker.
2. Implicit difference can be seen in Pronunciation style, vocabulary and also in sentence
structure.
3. Standard language is apprehensive for all dialect speakers where dialect is not.
4. Standard language can be used in every field but dialect has limitation in use.
11. 5. People follow Standard language in their writing system but there is no use of
dialect in written language. If it use it cannot be approved by society.
6. Standard language is unbiased comparing dialect for public or common use. But
dialect has more variation than standard.
7. Dialect is not approved in formal situation but standard form can be used in
both formal and informal situation.
8. Standard language is considered as a prestigious language by society while
dialect does not count as a prestigious language.
9. A standard language can represent all dialect under it. Dialect has not the power.
10. Standard language is not a formation of dialect but all dialects are formation of
a standard language
