Compare and contrast synchronic and diachronic analyses
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
Both are ways of understanding language; synchronic is the analysis of cultural data at a single point in time (looking at how things differ), while diachronic is an analysis through time, or over time (looking at how things change)
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What will be an ideal response?
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