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By doing so, information about a character does not have to be explicitly given, as the audience can guess it by listening to the way the characters speak (Hodson 2014: 5). Certain characters speak in such a way that the audience can deduce information about their background. Higgins and can point to the exact street where somebody was born, most people have a general idea of different dialects and where and when they are spoken (Hodson 2014: 3) This knowledge is used by many film makers. Although not everybody is as perceptive as Mr. Different pronunciation, vocabulary and syntax gives information not just about the region somebody comes from but also about their age and social class (Trudgill 2000: 23f). The way somebody speaks often says more about a person’s background, than how they dress or act. By listening to her use of language he can pinpoint the street in London where she was born ( Pygmalion, 0:04:45 – 0:08:38). Higgins is able to tell where the flower girl Eliza Doolittle comes from just by hearing her utter a few sentences. In the film Pygmalion, the phonetician Mr. The book itself begins with various introductory material and then discusses variation in English, dialect variation, received pronunciation, regional accent variation, and then spends about half of the book giving examples of sixteen British Isles accents and dialects: London, Norwich, Bristol, South Wales (Pontypridd), West Midlands, Leicester, Bradford, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Belfast, Dublin, Galway, Devon, Northumberland, and Lowland Scots, before closing with suggestions for using the book and some helpful tips on further reading.2.3 Differing Features in Northern Accents and RP It should be noted as well, however, that this book includes a cd that the book refers to often that gives audio examples of speakers of various regional dialects (including word lists as well as recorded conversations). The main area of interest, at least initially, will be the book. In terms of its contents, this book has two interrelated sets of content. I was pleasantly surprised with the materials this book had to offer even if it was not quite as new a book as I had expected it to be. This book was pretty surprising in just how in depth its materials were. Of course, among other countries the British accent is among the most important to know given its wide familiarity within music and cinema and television.

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