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Social Dialect

Meeting 10
Meeting 10

• Watch the video:


• In this video, the speaker discusses the relationship between language and social
class. She introduces ways in which social class leads to the creation of different
dialects of a language, with variations in pronunciation and vocabulary that
distinguish speakers from each other.
• The presenter in this video is Dr. Dianne Tyers, an experienced English language
teacher trainer based in Canada.
• Read the text on Social Dialect
Determining Social Class Quiz

Analyze the society that you are now living:


1. How many social classes are there?
2. What are the social classes that exist?
3. How are those social classes determined?
Think about this.

• How many variations of ‘tidak’ are there?


• Are they related to sociolects?
Vocabulary
Pronunciation

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