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Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 10:06AM

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

This quote has three points: 1) all dialects are of equal linguistic validity, 2) even the standard dialect was (once) a dialect of certain people, so 3) language and power are interrelated. (sociolinguistics)

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Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 10:09AM

AAVE

African American Vernacular English. A colloquial variety of English used by many Black (and other) Americans. Some linguists consider AAVE to be a de-creolized form of Gullah or other extinct slave creoles. (sociolinguistics)

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Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 10:10AM

Accent

Systematic speech variation that separates a group of individuals from other groups of the same language. Generally dialects are more formally defined than accents. (sociolinguistics)

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Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 10:12AM

Acrolect

The highest register of a language; a colloquial dialect of prestige. For pidgins and creoles, the form of the language most influenced by the superstrate. (sociolinguistics)

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