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Section 1
TEXT COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
1.1. Issues for Discussion

1. 
   What makes one recognize that different kinds of English are spoken inside England?
   
2. 
   What feature of a regional dialect does Charles Barber consider to be the most important one?
   
3. 
   How does the administrative division of England correlate with dialectal makeup of the country? Approach it in terms of your theoretical course of English Lexicology, namely, see the problem ‘Regional varieties of the English language’.
   
4. 
   Is the number of actually existing regional dialects of the English language more numerous than it is apparent to the ordinary speaker? If so, account for this fact.
   
5. 
   Whom does Charles Barber mean by ‘the untrained ear’ and which type of transference underlies this use?
   
6. 
   Can an amateur distinguish between the dialects of different towns, villages or those of different streets similarly to a professional in the field of phonetics?
   
7. 
   Which differences between the regional dialects are the most conspicuous ones and which are more difficult to recognize for the unprofessional speaker according to Charles Barber?
   
8. 
   What examples does the author provide to illustrate the differences in vocabulary and grammar between regional dialects?
   
9. 
   What types of English dialects are distinguished according to horizontal and vertical diversification of the English language?
   
10. 
    How is the notion of a class dialect explained by Charles Barber?
    
11. 
    Is there a certain correlation between social dialects and the local social structure?
    
12. 
    How does the author account for the fact that our assessment of a person’s style of speech is simply due to social traditions and associations but not due to the features inherent in the language itself?
    
13. 
    On what language levels, others than the phonetic one, does the social stratification of the language find its expression?
    
14. 
    Does the author support the opinion that the speaker higher in the social ladder describes many of the usages of lower strata as ‘ungrammatical’?
    
15. 
    What interesting coincidence is observed in the vocabulary usage between the representatives of the upper and the lower classes?
    
16. 
    Why does the author find such descriptions of the style of speech as ‘educated’ and ‘uneducated’ merely euphemisms for class distinctions in speech?
    
17. 
    Does one’s style of speech depend on education only or on some other factors according to Charles Barber?
    
18. 
    What example does Charles Barber provide as an exception to the universally recognized correlation between education and class?