Linguistic variation

It is the type of variation in language caused by the order of words within sentences

• Morphological

• Syntactic

• Phonological

• Semantic

It is the field that scientifically studies the relation between language and society

• Sociology

• Education

• Linguistics

• Sociolinguistics

It is the language variety used by different social groups (age, gender, ethnic group, social class, etc). This variety includes specific lexical, syntactic and phonological characteristics.

• Idiolect

• Dialect

• Sociolect

• Accent

It is the variety of language related to a particular field of knowledge. This is another name for "technical language". It is more related to lexical choices e.g. legal vocabulary or academic vocabulary

• Dialect

• Slang

• Idiolect

• Jargon

It is the variety of language related to a particular level of formality and informality. It includes specific lexical but also syntactic characteristics.

• Idiolect

• Jargon

• Style

• Slang

Any type of language characterized by systematic features is also called...

• Language change

• Language standarization

• Language variety

• Dialect

This is the technical term to refer to the situation in which speakers of different languages varieties are able to understand and communicate with one another.

• Mutual intelligibility

• Mutual support

• Comprenhension among speakers

• Understanding among speakers

This concept involves the lexical choices used in informal settings, often to indicate membership to a particular social group. There are two types: "common" and "in-group".

• Lexical repertoire

• Idiolect

• Slang

• Jargon

It is the variety of language an individual or a very small group of individuals (family or close friends) use.

• Dialect

• Sociolect

• Idiolect

• Accent

It is the phenomenon related to moving from one linguistic style to another. 

• Language phenomenon

• Language variation

• Language change

• Style/Language shifting