Evaluate the ways in which language variation is connected with peoples sense of personal, social, and cultural identity.

Language has many different forms that exist simultaneously, in the same way that the above factors (a persons personal, social, and cultural identity) all exist simultaneously within each other as factors relating to language variety. One example that encompasses all three of these factors becomes apparent at once when we consider an aspect of child language acquisition. Children do not all learn one solitary form of identical communication. They instead each learn and acquire their own form of communication that is distinctive to his or her social, regional and cultural background. In this essay, I aim to explore in detail each of the aforementioned areas and will try and establish links between them and the idea of language variation….(short extract)