Editing Dialect (section)

==Standard and nonstandard dialects==
A ''[[standard dialect]]'', also known as a "standardized language", is supported by institutions. Such institutional support may include any or all of the following: government recognition or designation; formal presentation in schooling as the "correct" form of a language; informal monitoring of everyday [[Usage (language)|usage]]; published grammars, dictionaries, and textbooks that set forth a normative spoken and written form; and an extensive formal literature (be it prose, poetry, non-fiction, etc.) that uses it. An example of a standardized language is the [[French language]] which is supported by the {{Lang|fr|[[Académie Française]]|italic=no}} institution. A [[nonstandard dialect]] also has a complete grammar and vocabulary, but is usually not the beneficiary of institutional support.

The distinction between the "standard" dialect and the "[[nonstandard dialect|nonstandard]]" (vernacular) dialects of the same language is often [[arbitrary]] and based on social, political, cultural, or historical considerations or prevalence and prominence.<ref name="chao">{{cite book |last=Chao |first=Yuen Ren |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Se87AAAAIAAJ&q=language+standard+dialect&pg=PA130 |title=Language and Symbolic Systems |date=1968 |publisher=CUP archive |isbn=9780521094573 |page=130}}</ref><ref name="Lyons" /><ref name="johnson">{{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nPsVxfVDXp0C&q=language+standard+dialect&pg=PA75 |title=How Myths about Language Affect Education: What Every Teacher Should Know |year= 2008 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0472032877 |page=75}}</ref> In a similar way, the definitions of the terms "language" and "dialect" may overlap and are often subject to debate, with the differentiation between the two classifications often grounded in arbitrary or sociopolitical motives,<ref name="mcworther">{{cite news |last1=McWhorter |first1=John |date=Jan 19, 2016 |title=What's a Language, Anyway? |agency=The Atlantic |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/01/difference-between-language-dialect/424704/ |access-date=19 July 2016}}</ref> and the term "dialect" is sometimes restricted to mean "non-standard variety", particularly in non-specialist settings and non-English linguistic traditions.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Benedikt Perak, Robert Trask, Milica Mihaljević |url=https://www.academia.edu/819390 |title=Temeljni lingvistički pojmovi |date=2005 |page=81 |language=sh}}</ref><ref name="Schilling-Estes" /><ref>{{cite book |author=Sławomir Gala |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWEZAQAAIAAJ |title=Teoretyczne, badawcze i dydaktyczne założenia dialektologii |date=1998 |publisher=Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe |isbn=9788387749040 |page=24 |language=pl}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Małgorzata Dąbrowska-Kardas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DZVSAwAAQBAJ |title=Analiza dyrektywalna przepisów części ogólnej kodeksu karnego |date=2012 |publisher=Wolters Kluwer |isbn=9788326446177 |page=32 |language=pl}}</ref>