SOCIAL VARIATIONS

PRESENTED BY:
AJENG PUJI L
ANISA AYU O
ENDOH RAUDOH
ILMIYAH HADI
IMADIYAH MULQI
MEIDIANZA F.S
MILDA SOLINDA
NURSYIFA W
SYFA ATHIFAH N
WINDA NUR A
 SOCIAL VARIATION

 RP : a social accent
RP stands not for “Real Posh”, but, rather for
Received Pronunciations.
the accent of the best educated and most
prestigious members of English society
 RP was promoted by the BBC for decades.
 RP is an accent used by less than 5 % of the British
populations.
 Most well educated Scots, Irish, and Welsh do not
use RP, and there is more than one socially
prestigious accent in these countries.
 RP now tends to be perceived by many people as
somewhat affected or ‘Real Posh’.
 ‘Estuary English’ and some have labeled it the new
‘RP’. Features of this modern urban dialect are
rapidly, spreading both regionally and socially and it
is a good illustration of the process of leveling.
Levelling involves the reduction of dialect and/or
accent variation has certainly reduced regional
variation in large area of the south of England