What's an isogloss?   Linguists plot out dialect map into more detailed   isoglosses , which are boundary lines between places o...

How do linguists identify dialects?   We can learn a lot about the history of a people from studying their dialects. The way Americans...

Michel Foucault – from “The Order of Discourse” Michel Foucault , from “ The Order of Discourse ” R. Young, ed.   Untying the Text   (19...

What causes these distinctly different dialects?   So what causes these distinctly different dialects? There are a number of reaso...

  Are dialect and accent the same thing? These are two terms which should not be confused. While a   dialect   is a distinct variati...