新编大学英语电子教案

southern hemisphere (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) are close to
British accents and are all rather similar because they emerged less than
200 years ago and are predominantly a blend of accents from
Someone speaking Cockney (English spoken in a certain area of London)
might have great difficulty in understanding the English spoken by
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intercity Afro-Americans in Chicago, for example. An accent is the
distinctive manner of pronunciation and intonation typical of a given
region or a social group. There are many different accents in England,
Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and the United States. Accents in the
An accent shows where a person comes from and, to an extent, what class he or she belongs to. Received Pronunciation (RP) or BBC English (so called because it is used by BBC announcers) is the accent of the southeast England. It has been associated with power and upper class since the fourteenth century. At that time the King, the royal court and the government settled in London, and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, both in the southeast, provided higher education for the whole country. People who wanted to be part of this powerful world had to use the same accent and language. In the nineteenth century RP was used in public schools, universities, the government, and the army to form small groups who would run the Empire. It was often impossible to get any kind of high position if you did not speak in the right way. Attitudes in Britain have changed and regional accents are now more acceptable. RP accent is still important and will help people to get jobs and a position in society which might be denied to them if they spoke in a different way.
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Like all languages, English has many dialects which reflect social
changes and settlement patterns that have occurred over many centuries.
Although specialists disagree on the exact meaning of dialect, generally it
refers to a socially or regionally restricted variety of a language. A dialect
southeastern England. The accents in the United States and Canada are
much older and more different from British accents.
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usually has its own distinctive grammatical (grammar, syntax), lexical
(vocabulary) and phonetic (accent) features. In many cases, it is
impossible for people speaking different dialects to understand each other.
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Unit 5 Language
New College English Book Two
鞍山科技大学外语系
Part One I. An Introduction (1)
Language
The term "language" normally refers to human speech, spoken or written. Language forms the basis of communication between all human beings, About 95% of the world's population speak one of the 100 most widely used languages. English and French both have more second-language speakers than nativespeakers as a result of the imperial expansion of Britain and France. Partly due to the British and American pop culture, English is fast becoming the universal foreign language of Europeans.