The concepts of the standard language

The standard language

The standard language is an idealized variety because it has no specific region.It is the variety associated with administrative, commercial and educational centers, regardless of region. If we think of standard English, it is the version we found in printed English in newspapers and books, is widely used in the mass media and is taught is most school.It is the variety we try to teach to those want to learn English as a second or foreign language.It is clearly associated with education and broadcasting in public contexts and is more easily described in terms of the written language (i.e vocabulary, spelling, grammar) than the spoken language.

Accent and dialect

The term accent is restricted to the description of aspects of pronunciation that identify where an individual speaker is from, regioanally or socially .It is different from the term dialect, which is used to described features of grammar and vocabulary as well as pronunciation.

Dialectology

Dialectology distinguish between two different dialects of the same language(whose speakers can usually understand each other) and two different languages(whose speakers can't usually understand each other). This way of describing dialects is helpful in establishing the fact that each different dialect, like each language, is equally worthy of analysis,that none of the varieties of a language is better than any another. They are simply different.

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