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PROFR. JORGE HERRERA MAAS 2013 ALUMNO: JUAN EDILBERTO POOT CHAN
Human language, in its concrete manifestations in natural languages, is presented as stable and unstable at the same time.
The capacity of individual shaping the language and power of social diffusion may give rise to linguistic change and language of change.
The tongue is like a radar that picks up fine palpitations every age, but has a degree of autonomy, its own pace, does not coincide with the facts of the external history.
Although the language is never static, the degree of mobility is variable. There are periods of relative quiet and acceleration times, critical times, in which jumps from one system to another.
The language is a cultural heritage that identifies the idiosyncrasies of each linguistic community. It is a reality that social and individual influences other instances of national life. We speak of structural linguistics, historical, generative quantitative, sociolinguistics or ethnolinguistic ... All of these names are as an index of the wealth of perspectives from which it is addressing the study of language.
Language is the clearest manifestation of rationality. The birth of homo sapiens is linked to the homo loquen.
Being able to talk, communicate with others, you have reached the normal degree of maturity thinking. Through the word, the outer and inner world is ordered: no longer a chaos of sensations. Therefore, the verb, the word has had a certain magical sense.
And alongside these theoretical investigations were other practical, as the system description language, to accelerate foreign language or to interpret literary texts to primitive times.
Learning a language is not just a mechanism to handle, is realizing while your multifarious operation mode. Reflection on language appears in the child from the moment he begins to speak. But, as Malmberg, language is born so relentless in every human being. You can follow this progress in the child, adult, and also the reverse process: the modification of the acquired language, and even its disintegration at the individual or group.
But human language actually means with set of languages, different languages. And each is composed of dialects of social or geographical. At any historical moment is considered, the situation has been the same: An infinite number of linguistic varieties.
Endogenous or internal
They are generated by the need for adjustment of the language itself
The time and space serve development field evolution, and the man facing new realities that must be named. These changes are long, there is a harmonious and systemic process and not rotund. On changes linguistic laws exist, which are in turn stable trends whole, necessary and essential governing changes and development of the form and meaning of languages.
The law of economics or least effort The law of differentiation or distinction need The law of analogy
Contact between speakers of different regions, from different generations shows that language is a variety and every moment it is subjected to a process of constant change, so to talk about the history of a language is necessary to mention the changes it to its current stage undergoes changes which are inherent to them.
PHONETIC CHANGE It is the change that modifies pronunciation and listening habits.
PHONOLOGICAL CHANGE
Altering the phonological system because it increases or decreases the number of phonemes or the system of oppositions.
MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGE
It that modifies altering the structure or shape of the signs The creation or forgetting a word with which is called reality or any loan taken to another language.
LEXICAL CHANGE
SYNTACTIC CHANGE
It is a reordering of the phrases in prayer or any of its components. When the words acquire new meanings and expand or diminish its significance.
SEMANTIC CHANGE
ASYMMETRIC CHANGE
All change is a long and slow process that sometimes takes centuries and never is produced in identical ways all the communities that make up the language.
Finally I note that languages do not change drastically, if they changed flatly deny a man his story, the arsenal of knowledge she means and permanently reset would force the day of creation.
DIATOPIC (GEOGRAPHIC)
DIASTRATIC (SOCIAL)
DIAFSICAS (FUNCTIONAL)
Styles of language, They depend on the influenced by the to level of culture and communication social strata situation Age, sex, occupation, They depend on the living environment communicative affect the use of situation of the language speakers, and their respective records
LANGUAGE DIALECT
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