Regional dialect and social dialect

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Regional Dialect and Social Dialect

By1. Rizki Eka Putri Alda

Introduction The way you speak is usually a

good indicator of your social background and there are many speech features which can be used as clues. Sociolinguistic have found that is most any linguistic features in a community which shows variation will different frequancy from one social group to another is a patterned and predict the way. Some features are stable and their pattern of use seem to have or and with membership of particular social group in predictable way from many years.

Douglas Biber distinguishes two main kinds of dialects in linguistics: "geographic dialects are varieties associated with speakers living in a particular location, while social dialects are varieties associated with speakers belonging to a given demographic group .

Dialect : Variety of a languange that is a characteristic of a particular group of the languange ‘s speaker.

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Regional dialect• A regional dialect is a distinct form of a language

spoken in a particular geographical area. Also known as a regiolect or topolect.

• Regional dialect is a variaty of language that is spoken in a geographical area for many hundred of years as seen in differences in pronouncations , in the choices and form of the word, and syntax.

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As opposed to a national dialect, a regional dialect is spoken in one particular area of a country. In the USA, regional dialects include Appalachian, New Jersey and Southern English, and in Britain, Cockney, Liverpool English and 'Geordie' (Newcastle English). . . .

In indonesia like : (Ngapak Javanese, Yogya Javanese).

Difference Pronouncation

Different Vocabulary

1. a. Movie

(U.S)b. Cinema

2.a. Cookie (U.S)b. Biscuit (G.B)

3a. Holiday

(U.S)b. Vacation

4a. Sweet (U.S)b. Candy (G.B)

5a. Pants (U.S)

b. Trouser (G.B)

6a. Fall (U.S)

b. Autumn (G.B)

7a. French Fries

(U.S)b. Chips (G.B)

8a. Restroom (U.S)b. Lavatory (g.B)

9a. Gas station (U.S)

b. Petrol Station (G.B)

Sosial Dialect

In sociolinguistics, social dialect is a variety of speech associated with a particular social class or occupational group within a society. Also

known as sociolect.

Sosial dialect : Differences in speech associated with

various social group or place .

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Various Factors to Determine Social Position

Occupation .Place of residence .Education .Income.Racial origin .Cultural background.Caste .Etc .

• For example, among older European-American speakers in Charleston, South Carolina (the absence of r in words such as bear and court is associated with aristocratic, high-status groups (McDavid 1948) .

• whereas in New York City the same pattern of r-lessness is associated with working-class, low-status groups (Labov 1966).

• In other words, it is not really the meaning of what you say that counts socially, but who you are when you say it."(Walt Wolfram, "Social Varieties of American English." Language in the USA, ed. by E. Finegan. Cambridge University Press, 2004)

CONCLUSION• Accents are distinguished from

each other by pronunciation alone. Different dialects are generally distinguishable in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.

• Regional dialect are geographically based ; social dialect originate from social group and depend on a variety of factor.