List of publications on a keyword: «dialects»

This article discusses the evolution of the English language, Key Stages of Old English, Viking Influence, Middle English, The Great Vowel Shift, Early Modern English, Late Modern English, A Global Language, The Future of English are analyzed, The characteristics of each stage of English language development are given, The main points influencing the evolution of the English language are described, reflecting historical events, cultural interactions and linguistic changes that have occurred over the centuries, An analysis of the modern state of the English language is given, which continues to evolve, adapting to new technologies and cultural influences.

This article investigates some functions of regional dialects in modern society. The aim of this study is to describe some features of speech communication among native speakers in Swabia in the field of education. The research has been carried out by the method of discourse analysis of directly observed texts. The study of Swabian regional dialect implementation in education discovered new social functions of regional dialects. According to the author they consist of expression of emotions, drawing attention and regulations of communicative distance. The research results could be of interest to sociolinguistics as a description of territorial dialect functioning in society.