Accent and dialogue in fiction may perpetuate harmful stereotypes. When writing about a real group of people in a work of fiction, there are important things to remember. A stereotypical rendering of regional accent or dialect based on racial, cultural or ethnic ‘difference’ could cause offence. Here are 6 tips for using accents and dialects in your writing better: 1: Make sure you use accent and dialect for the right reasons ‘Accent,’ by comparison, refers to pronunciation – the overall way speech sounds due to vowel and consonant production and syllabic stress. Dialect includes elements of language such as pronunciation, grammar and spelling. ‘Dialect’ is the language used by people of a specific region, class or other social group. Dialect and accent as literary terms – definitions Regional dialects help to convey a sense of local character speech in stories.
Learn how to write accents and dialects in your stories because it will help you write about crosscurrents between people and places.
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