Language Variety in England英语国家英语的多样性研究内容摘要：本文就英语国家的方言问题进行探讨，列举了英语方言的种类以及形成原因，并就标准英语的划分标准进行分析,以求能对英语语言学的研究有所帮助关键词：语言多样性 方言 口音 标准英语 Outline1.Introductin 2.The reason for English dialect.2.1. Pride and Interest 2.2.Regional features3. Standard English and non Standard English4. Conclusion 提纲1.引言 2.英语方言形成的原因2.1.自豪感与兴趣2.2.地理特征3. 标准英语与非标准英语4. 结语1.Introductin Nowadays, English has become an international language which is spoken by about 265 millions of people in the world. In China, there are increasing numbers of English learners, many of them , I believe, are interested in the language variety besides the English grammar and vocabulary. In China, one thing that is important to us is where we are from , this is equally important to m any English people. For m any of them , whatever happens to them in later life, and how ever much they move house o r travel, the place where they grew up and spent their childhood retains a special significance. More often than in previous generations, families may move around the country, and there are increasing numbers of people w ho have had a nomadic childhood, and are not really " from " anywhere. 2.The reason for English dialect.2.1. pride and interest But for a majority of English people, pride and interest in the area where they grew up is still a reality. For example, just like our Spring Festival time when most of the trains, buses and p lanes are filled with people going back to their hometown for family reunion, at Christmas time in England, the roads and railways are full of people returning to their native heath for the holiday period.Where they are from is thus an important part of their personal identity, and for many of them an important component of this local identity is the w ay they speak -their accent and dialect. 2.2.regional featuresearly all of them have regional features in the way they speak English. Of course there are upper- class people who have region less accents, as well as people who for some reason wish to conceal their regional origins. The vast majority of the population, how ever, speak in a manner which identifies them as coming from a particular place. They speak like the people they grew up with, and in a way that is different from people who grew up some where else.Of course, people m ay change the way in which they speak during their lifetimes, especially if they move around the country, but most of them carry at least some trace of their accent and dialect origins with them all of their lives. Other people w ill use this information to decide w here they are from , and will say things like “You must be a Londoner”, “You are from Yorkshire, aren’t you?”. In fact, similar questions could be heard in China: “ You must be from Beijing ”, o r “W hereabouts in N northeast are you from ?”This article on English dialects is about this variety in the way they speak English, and it is about the w ay all of them who are from England speak their native language, because all of them speak with an accent, and all of them speak a dialect. One’s accent’s the way in which he pronounces English, and since all of them pronounce when they speak, they all have an accent. Some accents, it is true, are mo re regional than others. Some people have very regional accents, so that you can tell exactly w here they come from. Other people have fewer regional features, you might be able to place them only approximately —“You ’re from somew here in the West Country, but I can’t tell w here. ”And yet other people may have very few regional features at all, so that you might be reduced to saying something as vague as “You are a southerner”.There are even a small number of people who have a to tally region less accent. These are usually people who have been to one of the big Public Schools, or who want to sound as if they have. This accent is sometimes referred to as a “BBC” accent because readers of the national new s on radio and television are usually selected from this minority of the population. Similarly, everybody also speaks a dialect. When talking about dialect w e are referring to something more than accent. We are referring no t only to pronunciation but also to the words and grammar that people use. Normally, of course, dialect and accent go together. If one speaks with Yorkshire dialect, he w ill obviously speak it with Yorkshire accent. But it is worth making a distinction between accent and dialect because what happens with the important dialect they call Standard English.3. Standard English and non Standard English Standard English is the dialect which is normally used in writing, and which is spoken by the most educated and powerful members of the population. The fact is that everybody w ho speaks with a BBC accent also speaks the Standard English dialect. But not everybody who speaks Standard English does so with a BBC accent. Most people who speak Standard English do s。