Language And Regional Dialect

Question 1

Manchester dialect

Answer 1

Chewing gum- chuddy
Pants instead of trousers
Pants in standard form means underwear but the regional specific term means trousers

Question 2

Paul Kerswill Direct levelling

Answer 2

Direct levelling- local varieties are becoming more like standard English because of
Increase in geographic mobility
Increase in social mobility

Question 3

Forrest of Dean

Answer 3

Isolated and sparsely populated rural area
-closed networks
-Preserved a very distinctive regional variety
E.g “Dree on’t” means “the three of us”

Question 4

Milroy and Milroy

Answer 4

Regional dialects are dying out sure to UK becoming more socially and geographically mobile therefore there is more pressure to use standard forms

Question 5

Cheshires reading study

Answer 5

Group of mixed sex teenagers
Identified 11 non standard forms
“They calls me names”
Boys use it more than girls to seem cool