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Regional dialects
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Regional dialects
Works cited
Nordquist, Richard, and Richard Nordquist. “What Are Regional Dialects in English?” Thoughtco., Dotdash, www.thoughtco.com/regional-dialect-1691905.
Hickey, Walt. “22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From One Another.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 5 June 2013, www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6.
Wilson, Reid. “What Dialect Do You Speak? A Map of American English.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 2 Dec. 2013, www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/12/02/what-dialect-to-do-you-speak-a-map-of-american-english/?utm_term=.988ec3aa0e44.
“Chemistry.” Atom Physics Lesson, www.physics-chemistry-class.com/chemistry/measuring-cylinder-graduated-cylinder.html.
“Anglo-Scottish Border.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 14 Jan. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Scottish_border.
“We Say We Seek Diversity - but Where Are the Truly Inclusive Campuses?” The Hechinger Report, The Hechinger Report, 16 July 2018, hechingerreport.org/opinion-we-say-we-seek-diversity-but-where-are-the-truly-inclusive-campuses/.
“Textual Ambiguity.” Affordable Editing Services, 1 July 2018, www.affordableeditingservices.com/writing/textual-ambiguity/.
"Common" English
"Standard" English
- education system
- editorial staff
- publishing companies
Text cites Standard English today had origin in a regional dialect
-administrative center of England moved to London (1300s) from East Midland
- Chancery English (official documents written)
Chapter highlights John Earl Joseph who states:
The Social Art
"The myth of a Golden Age that is so deeply embedded in Western culture includes as one of its facets that in the harmonious time all people shared a common tongue, and that the subsequent diversity of language and dialects accords with a diminution of all positive virtues..."
Definitions
Regional dialect - form of a language spoken in a particular geographical area. It is also known as a regiolect or topolect (Nordquist)
Isogloss: line dividing areas that differ by a single feature
Why is value placed on 'Standard Language'?
- Socioeconomic mobility
- Other?
Linguistic heterogeneity
Language issue!
"Language is a dialect with an army"