| Lemma | individual variation |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | derivational concept (inglese) fusion (inglese) inflection (inglese) radical element (inglese) to expression (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | [...] language is variable. Two individuals of the same generation and locality, speaking [...] the same dialect and moving in the same social circles, are never [...] at one in their speech-habits. The individual variations are swamped in [...] by certain major agreements- say of pronounciation and vocabulary- which stand out very strongly when the language of the group as a whole is contrasted with that of the other group. What keeps the individual's variations from rising to dialectic importance [...] is chiefly that they are silently 'corrected' or canceled by the consensus of usage . Language exists only in so far as it is actually used- spoken and heard, written and read. What significant change take place in it must exist, to begin with, as individual variations. |