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November 17, 2005
Homework 8: Question 2
I definitely agree that social groups are a large part of dialects. I think that geography forms the basis of a dialect, and social groups are subdivisions within those general categories. People change their social dialect depending on who their speaking to, but their geographical dialect is not easily altered. If a person from Georgia, a person from Minnesota, and a person from Boston were all speaking to their friends for example, they would have the same social dialect but would sound very different because of their origin.
Posted by lcisowens at November 17, 2005 01:57 AM