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"A language is a dialect with an army and navy" is a quip〔Victor H. Mair, ''The Columbia History of Chinese Literature'', p. 24 (full text ): "It has often been facetiously remarked... the falsity of this quip can be demonstrated..."〕〔Henry Hitchings, ''The Language Wars: A History of Proper English'', p. 20 (full text ): "There's an old joke that..."〕〔S. Mchombo, "Nyanja" ''in'' Keith Brown, Sarah Ogilvie, eds., ''Concise encyclopedia of languages of the world'', p. 793 (full text ): "A recurrent joke in linguistics courses ... is the quip that ..."〕 about the arbitrariness〔Timothy B. Weston, Lionel M. Jensen, ''China beyond the headlines'', p. 85 (full text ): "Weinreich...pointing out the arbitrary division between (and language )"〕 of the distinction between a dialect and a language. It points out the influence that social〔Thomas Barfield, ''The Dictionary of Anthropology'', ''s.v.'' 'sociolinguistics' (full text ): "Fundamental notions such as 'language' and 'dialect' are primarily social, not linguistic, constructs, because they depend on society in crucial ways."〕 and political conditions can have over a community's perception of the status of a language or dialect. The adage was popularized by the sociolinguist and Yiddish scholar Max Weinreich, who heard it from a member of the audience at one of his lectures. ==Weinreich== This statement is commonly attributed to one of the leading figures in modern Yiddish linguistics, Max Weinreich, who expressed it in Yiddish: }} }} The earliest known published source is Weinreich's article ''Der YIVO un di problemen fun undzer tsayt'' ( "The YIVO Faces the Post-War World"; literally "The YIVO and the problems of our time"), originally presented as a speech on 5 January 1945 at the annual YIVO conference. Weinreich did not give an English version.〔 〕 Weinreich presents this statement as a remark of an auditor at a lecture series given between 13 December 1943 and 12 June 1944:〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A language is a dialect with an army and navy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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