Thursday, July 30, 2020

SOCIOLINGUISTICS: ACCENTS, ATTITUDES AND IDENTITY

Accent describes both the words used by speakers from a given community, as well as the sounds that these speakers make. This creates a distinction between an accent (i.e. variation in pronunciation) and dialect (i.e. words and grammar). 

FACTS:
  • Every speaker has an accent.
  • All accents vary.
  • All accents (and languages!) are of equal value.
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