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Regional&Social Dialect, Regional&Social Variation, Social Dialect
Regional&Social Dialect, Regional&Social Variation, Social Dialect
Social Dialect
Social Variation
Regional Dialect
A regional dialect is a dialect based on the place, region, or area where the users
live, it is usually called as area dialect or geography dialect.
People who use Javanese with dialect of Semarang have their own particular
features that are different from others who have the dialect of Surabaya. But
they can communicate well with each other because those dialects are included in
the same language, Javanese.
The definition mentioned by (Chaer & Agustina, 1995) above is in line with what
Spolsky (1998) concludes about regional dialects. He concludes that regional
dialects tend to show less differences from their close neighbours and greater
differences from distant neighbours (Spolsky, 1998:29).
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Regional Dialect
Regional dialect can also be found in the internatonal world. The variation can be
distinguished from the pronunciation, vocabulary and even from the grammatical
differences (Holmes, 2001:124).
The examples of the pronunciation differences mentioned by Holmes (2001:124) in
her book is the word dad pronounced by a New Zealander that to British ears sounds
like dead that pronounced by an English person and the word god pronounced by an
American that sounds like guard that pronounced by an English. The examples of the
vocabulary differences can be found in the term used by Australians, people live in
England and New-Zealanders. Australians use the term sole parents, while people live
in England use single parents and New-Zealanders call them solo parents.
Social Dialect
According to Holmes (2001:134) social For example, in Javanese the word
dialects are the language that reflects for house has three forms that bear
the groupings of people that based on status meanings, they are omah, griya
similar social and economic factors. and dalem.
People from different social class do
Social Dialect is a variety of language not speak in the same way. For example,
that reflects social variation in language bank managers do not talk like office
use, according to certain factors related cleaners, lawyers do not talk in the
to the social group of the speaker such same way as the criminals they defend
as education, occupation, income level, in court.
caste, age, gender, etc.
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