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| I have searched about this issue and did not find a detailed explanation of this, since I could not apply it by examples to be clearer! I hope you can help me Thank you in advance |
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| Dialect = a form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group { from the Greek dialektos "discourse, way of speaking"} Two examples of dialect in Britain are Yorkshire http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/dialect/ and Lowland Scots http://www.scots-online.org/reader/index.htm Accent = a way of pronouncing a language, associated with a country, area, or social class, an emphasis given to a syllable, word, or note.{from the Latin accentus "tone, signal, or intensity"}. A person from Birmingham will have a different accent from a person from London. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A496352 Dialect can have words that are unique to itself and variant grammatical structures; Accents are variations in the way English is spoken. You might find this site interesting: http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/so...gional-voices/ Last edited by Anglika; 18-Jun-2008 at 21:38. |
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Second, now, did I got it if I say: if I live with another person in the same place, we usually have the same dialect, and as a result, we act similar accents. Also, dialect is concerned with words that are familiar in a specific place but not in another, but accent is concerned with the pronunciation of words and the latter is considered to be a developed stage of the former? I.e. in someway, it's almost necessary if someone and I have the same dialect to have the same accent? Thanks |
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I have been trying to think of a comparison in Arabic, and suggest that the accent used by someone from Damascus may be different from that used by someone from Cairo, though the language is identical. |
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Ok, in general, dialect and accent are related to each other regarding a specific place though they are different in function! As you said in your example of Damascus and Cairo, the language is Arabic but the dialects differ and this is obviously clear. I can now form them as follows: language is the root -> dialects <-> accents. But what I was confused about is that structures in dialects differ from one another, while I was comparing between dialects, I found no clear differences between structures although there are many differences in words. Dialects also, as I understood the meaning of dialect, exist in different regions at one country . |
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Standard English, which is what developed in the south of England and eventually spread through the entire country, stems from Anglo-Saxon and Norman French. They have slightly different sources. |
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| I now know that wherever a dialect exists, as a result, an accent will do, but not necessarily the opposite will happen. Thank you so much Anglika. |
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| Glad to have helped |
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| Sorry, but I wanted to ask if I can say that BrE and AmE are two dialects of English language as they differ in some vocabulary and rules of grammar? |
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| Well now - that is a leading question. I think the answer is probably technically yes. |
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