Re: dialectal diversity in English
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 18, 2003, 16:19 |
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>In my opinion, there should be a recognized distinction between
>"linguistic dialects", which would be based on the mutual
>intelligibility guideline, perhaps with reference to speakers' intuition
>in ambivalent cases, and "cultural dialects" which would be based on how
>they are viewed, thus, Chinese would be a single "cultural language",
>but several "linguistic languages", while Serbian and Croatian would be
>"cultural languages" but "linguistic dialects".
Works for me - I suspect I already do this subconciously.
However, the residents of Taiwan and Hong Kong would disagree that Chinese
is a single cultural language.
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