Social Dialects

Social dialects Rothstain and S.Rothstain (2009), they difined dialect a an aspect of language that refers to variation in pronunciation, words and, grammar of a specific language and as a part of every language, resulting from geographic, occupational and social differences. Read(1986), said that dialect can be divided into social and regional varieties. Regional dialects are difened geographically; social dialect are difined by socioeconomic and sociocultural characteristics.Black English is the best-known example of American social dialect. George Yule(2006),this refers to the traditional dialects tended to concentrate on the speech of people in rural áreas, the study of social dialects has been mainly concerned with speakers in towns and cities.In the study of dialects, it is social class that is mainly used to difined groups of speakers as having something in common. The two main groups groups are generally indentified as “middle class”, those who have more years of education and perform non manual work, and “ working class “, ando those who have fewer years of education and perform manual work of some kind. When we talk about “ working-class-speech, we are refers to social dialects. The terms ‘upper’ and ‘lower are used to further sudividethe groups, mainly on an economic basis, making ‘upper middle class speech’ another type of social dialects.
As in every dialec studies, only certain features of language used are treated as relevant in the analysis of social dialects. These features are pronunciations,words of structures that are regularly used in one form by working class speakers and in another form by middle class speakers. In Edinburgh, Scotland, for example, the Word home is regularly pronunced as [he:m], as if rhymnig with name, among lower-working-class speakers, and as [ho:m], as if rhyming with foam, among lower-middle-class speakers. It i a mal difference in pronuanciation, but it is an indicator of social status. A