Colloquial / InformalĬolloquial language is effectively anything that is not formal, often described as ‘spoken’ language. Standard English is what is generally taught where possible, but alternative forms may be taught in communities with developed variations.
In practice, this is not necessarily practical English, but rather the sort of English we’d expect to see in formal writing or polite situations. We use the terms standard, polite and formal to refer to language that sticks to the rules and is essentially presented as the ‘proper’ form of English. Below we’ll look at the following variety terms:
All of these terms, however, can cover variations in grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
There are a handful of ways linguists categorise varieties of language some definitions refer to word usage and rules, or merely to vocabulary, while others refer to the way language adapts culturally, in broader strokes.
0 kommentar(er)
