Questions about the Dialect & Accent poster

What’s on the Dialect & Accent poster?

Accent against Dialect, side by side. Accent: Pronunciation only; Accent: Everyone has one; Accent: Says where and who you are; Accent: Not a deviation from anything; Dialect: Pronunciation, vocabulary AND grammar; Dialect: Regional or social; Dialect: All speech is in some dialect; Dialect: Standard forms are dialects with an army; The line between a language and a dialect is political, not linguistic. Mutual intell…. Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are largely mutually intelligible and called languages. Chinese 'dialects' often are not, and are called dialects.

Who is the Dialect & Accent poster for?

Dialect & Accent belongs to the Languages section rather than to a school year, because languages is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning how languages work can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Dialect & Accent poster?

Accent is pronunciation only. Dialect includes vocabulary and grammar as well. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Dialect & Accent belongs on the wall where that languages work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Dialect & Accent?

Bilingualism, Grammatical Case and Code-Switching sit alongside Dialect & Accent in the Languages section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.BilingualismGrammatical CaseCode-Switching

Is the Dialect & Accent poster free to download and print?

Yes. Dialect & Accent downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Languages section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Dialect & Accent poster print at?

Dialect & Accent is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Dialect & Accent loses nothing.Printing guide