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A Standard Language

A standard language is a dialect that has legal status and is considered the most correct form, used in formal settings and taught to learners. It arises from standardization, which involves linguistic planning to create a unified model for communication. Key characteristics include a standardized dictionary, grammar, pronunciation, institutional support, and official recognition in public life.

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A Standard Language

A standard language is a dialect that has legal status and is considered the most correct form, used in formal settings and taught to learners. It arises from standardization, which involves linguistic planning to create a unified model for communication. Key characteristics include a standardized dictionary, grammar, pronunciation, institutional support, and official recognition in public life.

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Standard Language:

A standard language is a particular dialect of a language that has received legal or quasi- legal
status in some jurisdiction, where it is considered the “most correct” language. It is the version
whose spelling and grammar rules follow most of the texts written in that language, and the one
taught to those who learn it as a foreign language.

There is a variety of the language, which is called standard, which is chosen as an academic and
official model. It is the variety that is used in public administration, in study centers and in
formal communicative situations. It is intended that all members of a community dominate it,
beyond the particular way of speaking that they acquired in their childhood.

Standardization:

These standard varieties arise as a result of an act of linguistic planning called standardization.

Properties:

1) Intellectualization:

The standard variety should serve as a vehicle for complex communications and express ideas
effectively. For that it has to be lexically and grammatically equipped. The official languages
must be standard languages. To fulfill the specific communicative functions assigned to it, it
must be adapted from the linguistic point of view.

2) Flexible Stability:

A balance must be maintained between what makes this variety recognized as such (stability)
and those innovations that allow its adaptation to the new communication needs that arise among
its speakers (flexibility).

Functions:

1) Unifying:

It serves as a link between speakers of different varieties of the same language and helps to unite
them in a single linguistic community.

2) Prestige:

The possession of a standard language is linked to a certain prestige.

3) Reference Framework:

The standard variety serves as a reference framework for speech use, providing a coded standard
that serves as a correction point.
Characteristics of Standard Language:
1) Dictionary:

A dictionary that unifies a standardized vocabulary and spelling.

2) Recognized Grammar:

A recognized grammar that records the forms, rules and structures of language and that
recommends certain forms and punishes others.

3) Standard Pronunciation:

A standard pronunciation system , which is considered “polite” or “adequate” by speakers and is


considered free of regional markers.

4) Institutions:

An institution that promotes the use of language and that has certain authority, formal or
informal.

5) Statute or Constitution:

A statute or constitution that gives it an official status in the legal system of a country.

6) Use of Language in Public Life:

The use of language in public life , for example in the judiciary and the legislative branch.

7) Schooling:

The schooling of standardized spelling and grammar.

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