Discussion Questions

 In this space we present some questions and their answers that we have formulated so that you can better understand the topic. 

1. What does the mutual intelligibility rule mean?

It means that systematic differences don't matter as long as they are understandable with each other.

• If speakers of two different varieties can not understand each other, then they are speaking two different languages.

• If speakers of two different varieties can understand each other, then they are speaking dialects of one language.

2. What is dialect leveling?

Dialect leveling is movement toward greater uniformity and less variation among dialects. Though one might expect dialect leveling to occur as a result of the ease of travel and mass media, this is not generally the case.

3. How many different English dialects are there in the United states?

Geographers and social scientists estimate there are 7 groups of dialects in the United States.

4. Where you can find all the informaion about what the dialects is?

Well, thanks to technology now it is easier to be able to answer all the quiestion and doubts that we have thanks to how advanced technology is.

5. Why the dialects is very important in our life?

Dialects are essential becouse they are a part of our identity. They make us unique and give us a sense of belonging. dialects also help us express ourselves and feel more confortable in our skin. Dialects are essential because they help us to communicate with one to another.

6. What are the most common dialects in English language?

Some of the most commonly spoken dialects of English include those from places like Australia, the US UK, India, Kenya, Jamaica.

7. What are the main syntactic differences between AAE and SAE?

• Multiple Negatives
• Deletion of the Verb Be
• There Replacement

8. Why have sign languages ever been banned?

In many places in the world (including the United States), the use of sign  languages of the deaf was once banned. Children in schools for the deaf were  often punished if they used any gestures at all. The aim of these schools was to teach deaf children to read lips and to communicate through sound. This view prevented early exposure to language.

9. What is genderlect?

In sociolinguistics, a speech variety or communication style particularly associated with one sex (a kind of dialect). Speech differences are a key feature in gender stereotypes: expressive, instrumental, relational communication, and task-oriented communication. 

10. Why are dialects considered as degraded forms of language?

Language purists believe that there is only one correct way to speak and that is by following the grammatical rules that social classes have interposed (standard language). They downplay dialects and their speakers. However, each dialect is based on the standard language, adding its previously seen cultural or social particularities.