Sociolinguistics

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September 26, 2015

 

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So it can be seen how important the matter of time is in language change. Another example given by Holmes is about the meaning of the words like once nice meant ?precise', and before that it meant ?fastidious' and earlier still it meant ?ignorant'. Language varies in three ways: - overtime - in physical space - socially Which are the major ways that variation occurs in language...
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We can understand by variation that is the way language changes, a general term, general changes. And by change we can understand that is when a word, the pronunciation, etc. is modified overtime. In fewer words is the modification of a special concept. So "a language change has its origins in variation" (Holmes, 212) its understood that when a new form is spread it means that the change its being done...
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