Topic 6: Regional and Social Dialect

Dialect is a part of the accent. It can be distinguished by their ________, vocabulary, and influenced by their geographical area

• morpheme

• grammar

• pronunciation

• affixes

The northern England English speaker tends to drop the initial ___ to determine their socio-economic and background

• t

• h

• l

• r

__________ is a variety of dialects spoken across a large geographical region with only minor differences as they are close geographically.

• Monolingualism

• Regional dialects

• Intro-continental variation

• Direct chain

Dialect variations within a nation are best described as ____________.

• International varieties

• Intra-national

• Social dialects

• Intra-continental

Social class can be defined as a shorthand term for differences between people which are associated with differences in social prestige, ____________ and education.

• regional

• location

• geographical

• wealth

There are three core elements in social class dialects subtopics which are vocabulary,

____________ and grammatical patterns.

• pronunciation

• social dialects

• social variation

• regional variation

In Caste dialect, people can be grouped based on similar ________ and ________ factors.

I. Politic

II. Social

III. Economic

IV. Community

• I and II

• II and III

• III and IV

• I and IV

What are examples of caste dialects?

I. Brahmin

II. Javanese

III. Vaisha

IV. Sundra

• I and II

• II and III

• III and IV

• I and IV

A way of pronouncing words that occur among the people in a particular region or country.

• Dialect

• Accent

• Rhotic

• Slang

A variant that combines pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary from southeastern and non-regional English.

• Non-standard English

• Estuary English

• Social Dialect

• Received Pronunciation