Reading Check

Peter Trudgill Standard English: What it isnt

1- Standard English is not a language. Explain. (p. 118
2- How many people speak Standard English with some form of regional
accent in Britain? (p. 118)
3- Whats the name of the standardised accent in English? Where is it
spoken? (p.118.119)
4- What are styles? (p 119). Explain the following:We are therefore
justified in asserting the theoretical Independence of the parameter
standard-non standard from the parameter formal-informal. (p. 212)
5- What are registers? Explain the following one can certainly acquire
and use technical registers without using Standard English, just as
one can employ non-technical registers while speaking or writing
Standard English (p. 122)
6- What features of Standard English are mentioned from page 123 to
page125?
7- Grammatical differences between Standard English and other
dialects are in fact few in number, although of course they are very
significant socially (p.125) What are these idiosyncaracies of Standar
English?
8- Given that it is possible for non-standard features to become
standard (and viceversa), it follows that there will be a period of time
when a forms status will be uncertain or ambigous (p. 126) What
would people tend to do/say in this kind of situation?