THE ESSENTIAL AND ACTUALITY OF ENGLISH DIALECTS

Abstract

This article reviewed types and differentiation of English language dialects.
Every language community, ranging from a small group to a nation has its own social
dialect, and consequently, its own social accent.
British sociolinguists divide the society into the following classes: upper class, upper middle
class, and middle class, lower middle class, upper working class, middle working class,
lower working class. It is well worth to understand that classes are split into different major
and minor social groups (professional, educational, cultural, age, sex and so on).
Correspondingly every social community has its own social dialect and social accent. D.A.
Shakhbagova defines social dialects as "varieties spoken by a socially limited number of
people".
So in the light of social criteria languages are "characterized by two plans of socially
conditioned variability — stratificational linked with societal structure, and situational,
linked with the social context of language use"