Costa Davide, Serra Raffaele
Department of Law, Economics and Sociology, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Front Sociol. 2022 May 6;7:902213. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.902213. eCollection 2022.
Rhoticity in English refers to the pronunciation of the consonant /r/ in all r position contexts, while non-rhoticity refers to the dropping of the /r/ sound in particular r positions. In this context, the two English varieties, classified as rhotic and non-rhotic can be found both in British and American English-speaking people, but also in other English-speaking countries. The most updated information about rhoticity, related history of classes in the English-speaking people have been retrieved from the most important database such as ScienceDirect and Scopus. Society and language are strictly related, especially in rhoticity changes that occurred over time in the English-speaking people. In fact, rhoticity is a dynamic sociolinguistic phenomenon as it was influenced by social class changes during centuries, and even now it is constantly evolving. Rhoticity is also connected to social mobility in English-speaking countries and is also an indicator of social displacement from one social class to another. In fact, class, language, and social differentiation are only the terms of an inseparable social equation. In conclusion, in the dynamics of class, rhoticity and non-rhoticity seem are related to socio-anthropological issues that confirm an intimate connection with the process of social differentiation.
英语中的r音发音是指在所有r位置语境中辅音/r/的发音，而非r音发音则是指在特定r位置省略/r/音。在这种语境下，分为有r音发音和无r音发音的这两种英语变体，在以英语为母语的英国人和美国人中都能找到，在其他说英语的国家也存在。关于r音发音的最新信息，以及说英语人群中相关的类别历史，已从诸如科学Direct和Scopus等最重要的数据库中检索到。社会和语言紧密相关，尤其是在说英语人群中随时间发生的r音发音变化方面。事实上，r音发音是一种动态的社会语言现象，因为它在几个世纪中受到社会阶层变化的影响，即使现在也在不断演变。r音发音还与说英语国家的社会流动性相关，也是从一个社会阶层向另一个社会阶层社会位移的一个指标。实际上，阶层、语言和社会分化只是一个不可分割的社会等式的几个方面。总之，在阶层动态中，r音发音和非r音发音似乎与社会人类学问题相关，这些问题证实了与社会分化过程的密切联系。
