Analysis Of Dialect Variation

Based on the video, it showed some peoples from many regions speak English with their own dialect and accent. A dialect is a variety of English that differs from other dialects in three specific ways such as lexis (vocabulary), grammar (structure), and phonology (pronunciation or accent). Dialect variation is generally understood based on geography. However, there are other factors that lead to variation, too. For example, there are differences in the speech of different classes, ethnic groups, age groups, and genders, and there are differences between educated and uneducated speech. English may be different from each other, but all speakers within the English-speaking world can still generally understand them. Accent refers to the differences

The fourteen speakers are American, Italian, Chinese, Iraq, French, Spanish, England, German, Mexican, Japanese, Russian, Brazilian, Indonesian, and Indian. The fourteen speakers gave speech in interview and formal speech occasion. Based on three circles, the speakers are divided into three circles. According to Kachru, those circles are inner-circles, outer-circles, and expanding circles. The Inner Circle refers to English as it originally took shape and later was spread across the world in its first diaspora. The transplantation of English, speakers from England carried the language to Australia, New Zealand, and North America. In the countries of this circle, English was the primary, with exception of Canada, the sole language of education, of officialdom, and of society at large. The speakers from inner-circle diaspora use standard English with correct pronunciation and intonation. On the other hand, the Outer Circle of Englishes was produced by the second diaspora of English, which spread the language through colonization in Asia and Africa. Imposed by economic, political and military realities, English became the additional language for many indigenous residents of countries such as India and Nigeria. English took on functions which other languges had not performed. Outer-Circle countries and regions such as the Carribean, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Singapore are now routinely characterized

On the other side, speakers from outer circle are speakers from Italian, Iraq, French, Spanish, Mexican, German, Brazilian, Russian, and India, while speaker from expanding circle are Chinese, Japanese, and Indonesia. It seen in the video, speakers from outer and expanding circle mostly did pauses and still brought their own dialects and accents. Even some of the outer and expanding circle speakers seem difficult to utter their statements such as Japan, French, India and