Mid term EL102

True or false;

Received Pronunciation

is the regionally

True or false;

Standard English refers to a style of language used to suit a setting where the audience is large, not personally known, or in authority.

True or false;

Standard dialects have a distinct grammar, lexis and pronunciation.

True or false;

Nonstandard English is perceived as official and an appropriate choice of style in media writing and by teachers, the education system.

True or false;

Speakers from upper classes tend to use nonstandard dialect features more excessively.

True or false;

Received Pronunciation is a social dialect, not a geographical one, because it is not linked to a particular region

True or false;

Nonstandard English is still referred to and spoken by British people who have a very high, perhaps even the highest, social status.

True or false;

Standard English is the accents, the dialects, the vocabulary that vary according to where you live, or what social group you are in.

True or false;

The use of nonstandard dialect words, grammar and pronunciation decreases the longer an

individual spends in education.

True or false;

Nonstandard dialects are often wrongly perceived as being correct but linguists persistently stress that Standard English is in no form superior to any spoken dialect.