Language, Identity, and Society

is more than one way of saying the same thing…due to differencesin the social characteristics of the speakers …[or] the surrounding linguistic context;

can be: Linguistic: code, style, register, syntactic, lexical, phonetic; Social: age, origin, context, gender, class, ethnicity;

is a form of language (accent, style, dialect) that fits a specific context.

is one version of a variable that does not change meaning but changes the speaker’s identity; e.g, Classical /ǧ/ [dj] and Egyptian Arabic /g/