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Example of language variety. This may include languages dialects registers st. One person may control a number of registers. Sex Females tend to be more hyperbolic or expressive in their speech while males speech is more subdued.

The age sex group identity and roles will influence the language used. The ability to change from one language variety to another EXAMPLE a doctor speaks of a bone as tibia to his colleagues and as shinbone to his family. For example variations on the term carbonated beverage including soda pop and coke differ in various areas of the United States.

Language varieties 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. Canadian English London English the English of football commentaries and so on. Peekaboo than when talking to a peer.

Social class religion and ethnicity. Sociolinguistics language variation according to gender ethni and socio-economic Latin word Communs meaning commonness of experience forms the basis of the word Communication. Ethnic group in America eg.

Indigenized varieties are spoken mainly as second languages in ex-colonies with multilingual populations. Age A different variety of language is used when talking to children eg. Labovs work in NY.

The use of the word variety to refer to the different forms avoids the use of the term language which many people associate only with the standard language and the term dialect which is often associated with. All aspects of language sounds phonemes morphemes syntactic structures lexemes meanings etc are subject to variation according to these parameters. This may include languages dialects registers styles or other forms of language as well as a standard variety.