different dialects of it. A dialect is a variety in a language based on the region. Some of the many different dialects of American English are New York English‚ Coastal Southern English‚ Black English and many others (Vajda). Now‚ how can American English be called a "pure" language when it its own country‚ it is divided
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adapted in different situations and how the attitudes of other people influenced these adaptions Over the years as time passes by our language progresses and develops. People all around the world will have their own form of how they speak different dialects‚ languages or accents. Today I’m going to be exploring and evaluating the factors that affect the way my own spoken language can adapt in different situations and how the attitudes of other people influence these adaptions. In everyday life I adapt
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Standard English‚ Andrew Neil does not speak in this way but in a colloquial dialect with plenty of hedges and fillers for example ‘wouldn’t foster with a barge pole’. Since Andrew Neil has been interviewed‚ as editor of the Sunday Times and‚ on This Week‚ been interviewing for a long time‚ he shows experience by the way that the speed of his talking is constant and the way he transforms fillers into professional dialect. For example in the transcript there seems to be plenty of hedges and fillers
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using non-standard Bahasa or Malay that is Peranakan ( Chinese Straits) to their children. When I ask them why they can t speak Chinese‚ they say that their parents never taught them although I knew my grandparents do speak in one of the chinese dialect. My parents felt comfortable communicating in Peranakan as the surrounding neighbours too are using the language. As for me‚ I get to learn the language as my mother tongue and
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An Examination of Southern Dialect as Seen in the Works of William Faulkner In the writings of William Faulkner‚ the reader may sense that the author has created an entire world‚ which directly reflects his own personal experience. Faulkner writes about the area in and around Mississippi‚ where he is from‚ during the post-Civil War period. It is most frequently Northern Mississippi that Faulkner uses for his literary territory‚ changing Oxford to "Jefferson" and Lafayette County to "Yoknapatawpha
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I chose to analyze my reflective piece entitled “If dem doh care why should I” by the use of primarily investigating dialect variation and communicative behaviors. Dialectal variation refers to the variety of a language due to geographic‚ individual and group factors. In the monologue the two main dialects used were Creole and Standard English. Creole is a language with pidgin in its ancestry that is spoken as a native language
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the speech of individuals and groups. Linguistics 201‚ May 28‚ 2001 Kordula De Kuthy 1 Dialect 2 Accent Any variety of a language characterized by systematic differences in pronunciation‚ grammar‚ and vocabulary from other varieties of the same language is called a dialect. Everyone speaks a dialect – in fact‚ many dialects at different levels. The people who speak a certain dialect are called a speech community. Some of the larger dialectal divisions in the English speaking
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determined by their geographic location. (Most words are listed in the pinyin spellings‚ not the older Wade-Giles system) Go to Chinese Place Names http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/chinalan.htm ACTIVITY 3: Britspeak: Same Language‚ Different Dialects Sometimes misunderstandings occur because words have multiple meanings‚ and meanings can change over time due to the dynamic nature of language. English has an extensive vocabulary‚ and words used in Great Britain may have alternate meanings than
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Language and Self Identity Have you ever considered that language can be more than just a means of communication? With roughly 6‚500 languages being spoken in the world today‚ linguistics is one of the most complex subjects out there. One thing intriguing about linguistics is how we use language to create our own identity and to identify others. Neither language nor identity are fixed ideas; both are dynamic and constantly changing depending on our surroundings. The varying uses of language are
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spread over Europe‚ in Russia‚ Iceland‚ France‚ Ireland etc. Suddenly things became quiet‚ and the Vikings ceased attacks. In 850‚ Viking ships sailed up the Thames‚ which consequently created the linguistic division between northern and southern dialects in England today. Another jolt to English language came in 1066‚ when the Normans‚ Vikings who had settled in the north of France‚ ended up creating 10‚000 words for the English language. For the next 300 years‚ no English king spoke his mother tongue
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