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    This document contains discussion questions about sociolinguistics concepts from Chapter 6, including defining language, dialect, and idiolect. It asks about dialect continua and how distance and barriers between groups can lead dialects to diverge over time due to isolation and other factors. Finally, it prompts sharing something interesting found on the American Dialect Society website and how useful that site could be for students.

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    Review and Discussion after Chapter 6

    1. Define the term language (as opposed to dialect and idiolect).


    2. What is a dialect continuum? Describe it and give an example and explain it.
    3. What do the terms distance and barriers mean in Sociolinguistics?
    4. What is the result of there being distance and barriers between groups of people?
    5. Dialects begin to diverge from each other because of isolation and what other
    factor?
    6. What do you know about other English Varieties? What varieties do you know
    anything about? What do you know about them?
    7. Share something interesting that you found at the American Dialect Society
    (ADS) website.
    8. How useful do you think the ADS website might be to you or your students? How
    can you or your students use it?

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