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MUSCOVITE Posted 12 years ago
Linguistics Studies

what components does a language typically consist of?

Hi,

Take English for example.
Is it possible to "decompose" the English language into parts (in layman terms of course, please!)?

Does the following trivial "scheme" make sense?

(1) English consists of several "superdialects" such as AE, BE, Australian E, Indian E, etc. etc.
(2) Each superdialect consists of a few/several (regional) dialects?
(3) A dialect can normally be divided into what?
"Subdialects"? Or there is nothing between "dialect" and "idiolect"?

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g. Deixis --> Your bag is over there (there = on the floor, next to the bookcase). - DJB -

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  • Deixis --> Your bag is over there (there = on the floor, next to the bookcase).
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Hi,

Linguists often claim that language consists of four components:

1) phonology (the sounds of a language)
2) semantics (the meaning of words, phrases and idioms)
3) grammar (the structure of a language)
4) pragmatics (practical rules that are involved with using language, e.g. Deixis --> Your bag is over there (there = on the floor, next to the bookcas
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Thank you for your input, dokterjokkebrok! Emotion: yes

To all appearances, there are different w
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MUSCOVITEFor example, is there anything in between "dialect" and "idiolect"?
Yes, there is. However, there is no general agreement on terms for what, in what follows, I call levels.

If I had to 'classify the language I speak, I could do it at these levels:

1. Indo-European Austro-Asiatic Family?
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It's GREAT! Just what I was looking for! Emotion: yes
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