Of the republic of uzbekistan the uzbek state university of world languages english language faculty III

* vernacular – a form of a language that ordinary people use, especially one that is not the official language


1.1 The Southern type of English Pronunciation
The Southern type of English Pronunciation is also known as Standard English Pronunciation, Received English Pronunciation (RP), and Public School Pronunciation.
Each term has its justification as it describes one of the aspects of this type of English pronunciation.
The term Southern English is indicative only of its birthplace and does not mean that it is confined nowadays only to the south of England.
For reasons of politics, commerce and the presence of the court the pronunciation of the south-east of England and more particularly, that of London region began to acquire in the sixteenth century an exceptional social prestige in England. In time it lost some of the local characteristics of London speech. It became finally fixed, as the speech of the educated, through the stabilizing influence of the public schools of the nineteenth century – the select and expensive boarding schools for the children of the rich, such as Eton and Harrow. Hence the name Public School Pronunciation.
Such public schools existed in all parts of the country and prepared their pupils for the universities, this type of universities began to be recognized as characteristic not so much of a region as a social stratum. With the spread of education, the situation arose in which those dialect-speaking schoolchildren and university students who were eager for social advancement felt obliged to modify their accent in the direction of the social standard and acquire this type of pronunciation. Hence the term Received Pronunciation (RP) introduced by D. Jones. Pronunciation was, therefore, a marker of position in society.

+In present day England great prestige is still attached to this implicitly accepted social standard of pronunciation. It has become still widely known as accepted through the advent of radio and television. The British Broadcasting Corporation chose this type of pronunciation for its announcers mainly because it is the type which is most widely understood and which excites least prejudice of a regional kind. [Thus, RP is often identified in the public mind with "BBC English". This special position occupied by RP, basically educated Southern British English, has led to its being the form of pronunciation most commonly described in books on phonetics of English and traditionally taught to foreigners].

It is for these reasons that RP is accepted as the teaching norm in most countries where English is taught as a foreign language, including all the schools and colleges in the former USSR countries.


1.2 Northern English