Course paper Theme: Dialect words in English Content: Introduction

Conclusion.
English is the national language of Great Britain, the United States of America, Australia, New Zealand and most of the population of Canada. Today, people inhabiting the above countries have their own pronunciation, which is considered their national language.
It is quite difficult to draw a line between the concept of a language variant and the concept of dialect speech, because by definition, both of them can be characterized as a variant of the pronunciation of a given language, specific to a certain group of people. But we should not forget that the main difference is that some varieties of the language, in this case English, have already begun to establish themselves as independent languages ​​(others will inevitably follow their example), which will never happen with dialectal speech.
The study of dialects provides invaluable and truly inexhaustible material not only for penetrating into the deepest sources of the language, its historical past, but also allows you to sensibly, without bias and one-sidedness, evaluate and understand the features of the formation and development of the literary norm, various social and professional dialects, as well as language variants. Only taking dialect data into account opens up the possibility of understanding not only the so-called "deviations" from the rules of pronunciation and grammar, but also these rules themselves, and can serve as a solid basis for studying the formation and development of the meanings of words.
There is a point of view that dialects are "vulgar speech" used by "uneducated" sections of society. However, such a judgment is anti-historical and factually incorrect, because, firstly, the literary norm, as a rule, is formed on the basis of one or several local dialects; secondly, the linguistic features of any local dialect are due not to the "carelessness" of the speech of its speakers, but to strict historical patterns.
It would be primitive and wrong to imagine the speech of dialect speakers as completely homogeneous and consisting entirely of dialectisms at all language levels (phonetics, grammar, vocabulary) and in all speech situations. Language is a complex social phenomenon, it exists in human society, in the real everyday speech practice of people belonging to various social, professional, territorial formations. The wide distribution of the literary standard throughout the UK, inter-dialect contacts, the influence of professional and social language patterns inherent in certain layers of speakers, the impact of radio and television - all this ultimately determines the speech of individual speakers of a dialect, which is within a single territory to the same extent. heterogeneous, as in different areas. Even the speech of individual dialect speakers within the same village or community has its own specific features. It should be especially noted that the inexorable process of urbanization to a large extent narrows and levels the boundaries of the distribution of territorial dialects and the possibility of their development. This, however, in no way reduces, but, on the contrary, increases the great importance of studying areal dialects for a more in-depth and unbiased understanding of the etymology, history and theory of the English language. That is why every single dialectal lexeme, every dialectal meaning, phonetic or grammatical feature, has an enduring value, regardless of whether they are currently alive, are in the process of dying out or have already fallen into disuse.