Why does a southern Drawl sound uneducated to some?

Why does a southern Drawl sound uneducated to some?

Summary

This article looks at the different studies related to the stereotypes that revolve around the way of speaking of different people either from the North or the South. In this article, issues of accent and the beliefs that seem to be associated with it considering accents are profoundly rooted and have profound consequences. This is because accents have been seen to the determining factor on issues of employment, self-perception, selection of friends, leadership, authority and respect also who we want to live with. However, these are just stereotypes because, from a biological perspective, no accent can be considered correct nor incorrect. Accent has caused so many social strata for centuries now since the Civil War with bias-related to accent being developed. According to this article, people associate cultural stereotypes with subjective judgments concerning the knowledge and ability of people just because of their accent when they make a speech. It was found that classifying people with their pronunciation bears more weight more than just visual prompts to ethnicity. It is so exciting to see people attach features of character in various accents which are experienced in the current worlds population. In a study carried out by psychology from Chicago university show that children also have different attitudes towards accents. The research shows fascinating answers after the children were shown photos and small audio clips and were asked to choose who they would love to be friends with. The children selected the picture, but the most surprising thing is that they never did it based on the accent. Most of the Sothern’s do not judge people based on the accent because they are used to this from a young age.

Response

Why does a southern Drawl sound uneducated to some? Is the article I choose R. Douglas writes it.

The regional dialect is the dialect discussed in this article with the author explaining the different kinds of dialect from the North to South society. In this article, the regional dialect is developed by different attitudes created by various groups and societal classes.

Regional dialects have so many features that define them from another kind of dialects, these dialects are only distinguished by different geographical area and are a type of a spoken language. They are most known to be transmitted from a parent to a child. Most of the regional dialect is perceived as the vernacular of the child, and that is what they grow hearing from the parents.

This kind of dialect has so many perceptions and stigmas because people mostly categorize people by their region. There are different stereotypes related to this dialect as people from different areas consider themselves to be better than other groups. The controversy in this kind of a dialect is that many may perceive it as being grammatically not collect.

Linguistics perceive this kind of dialect as a form of English which is no more correct compared to other customs of English. From the linguistics point of view, regional dialect is just an English dialect that people of particular regions speaks.

This kind of dialect should be considered as US dialect and not a slang because these people who speak this understand it this way. Again it is an English dialect that has several features which allow it to spread in regions.