#4840
Alaric Naudé
Moderator

Dear Ray

Thank you for the reply, it is much appreciated. No matter I will write to them to see if it cannot be rectified. You comment is noteworthy regarding linguistics, yet such is the nature of the beast, once a field of study expands in depth, it becomes a so-called hydra of extensions (in many instances anyway).

Now, regarding dialects, the scope is slightly negative as you have pointed out, yet this seems to be a trend, as globalization forces more languages and dialects into extinction. I have noted negative feeling between dialect users in Korea, China and other Asian countries and a degree of dialectal profiling by certain people. In all honesty however there is also the factor that negative information has the tendency to spread faster than positive information.

There are a few interesting sources of information below:

Linguistic Profiling

https://books.google.co.kr/books?hl=en&lr=&id=3bF3LtQfxU4C&oi=fnd&pg=PA155&dq=regional+dialect+discrimination&ots=VciaD_jU4U&sig=JFX6hknINe4AfEsxuYI728OFQLk#v=onepage&q=regional%20dialect%20discrimination&f=false

Categorization of Accents by British children

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0165025409103871

Role of Intonantion

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095447013000193

Regional Dialect Discrimination

https://books.google.co.kr/books?hl=en&lr=&id=EwY15naRiFgC&oi=fnd&pg=PA313&dq=regional+dialect+discrimination&ots=0OW6A-bU8T&sig=JuPH80o710yc4KCUTTwQiAA1jbE#v=onepage&q=regional%20dialect%20discrimination&f=false