A)Dialects are a natural ‚ invevitable part of cultural and regional differences in American society. Discuss one or two examples of dialects seen in the video.(Please no more than 2 examples.) Example 1 BOSTON WOMAN: I was engaged for awhile to a “Yalie” who sounded like a Yalie to me‚ although he had a trace of a Southern accent. I thought sort a Bill Faulkner‚ Truman Capote accent‚ you know‚ when you’re twenty you don’t‚ you know‚ make these distinctions and I went home to
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emphasizes important character aspects? Dialect. Dialect may seem to be such a small and even insignificant feature‚ but it can reveal so much about a character. The use of dialect in Hurston’s “Sweat” veraciously brings life to her characters as well as evokes and emphasizes the authenticity of African American lives in her story. Hurston’s use of dialect in “Sweat” is a key factor in her bonafide depiction of real African Americans during her time. In general‚ dialect discloses immense amounts of knowledge
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Vernacular‚ Black English Vernacular(BEV)‚ or Black Vernacular English (BVE)—is a variety (dialect‚ ethnolect‚ and sociolect) of American English‚ most commonly spoken today by urban working-classand largely bi-dialectal middle-class African Americans.[1] Non-linguists sometimes call it Ebonics (a term that also has other meanings and connotations). It shares parts of its grammar and phonology with the dialects of the Southern United States. Several creolists‚ including William Stewart‚ John Dillard
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Gene is talking with his friends about the war. They discuss that they want to be a part of the war‚ and enlist. At the beginning of the novel‚ Gene seemed like a peaceful and studious kid that only got into trouble because of the daring child Phineas. Now since the incident of Finny breaking his leg‚ Gene has changed. Gene seems more like Finny now‚ stating that the war attracted him. Gene also says that he loves the war. Gene also seems to have a sense of hatred still inside him. He says that there
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prerogative of young people and generally sound old in the mouth of and older person. Slang is so ephemeral; vocabulary can be a real give-away of you are trying to guess a person´s age on the telephone or radio. AGE AND SOCIAL DIALECT DATA • Social Dialect= research has provided a great deal of information about patterns of pronounciation and grammar for different age groups. • Social Dialectologists= found adolescents use the highest frequencies of vernacular forms‚ especially
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In "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles‚ it is evident that Finny and Leper undergo the most traumatic experiences from the Class of 1943. Through these experiences‚ both characters lose much of their innocence and naivety. Finny‚ upon learning of the existence of the war and Gene’s moment of hatred‚ learns to accept realities and perceive the world as it is‚ not as the perfect childlike image he wants it to be. However‚ when Leper enlists in the army‚ he quickly begins to have hallucinations because
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Marque Mcduffy August 30‚ 2012 Mr. Mancini RELA 8B Do Now The favorite thing to eat is pizza at night. That’s my favorite thing to eat because at night I’m always hungry and be having taste for some pizza. Therefore‚ pizza can fill you up and it can’t. It can fill you up because you can eat about how many you want. It can’t fill you up because if you eat one slice of pizza and everybody else in your house hole or more have to get a slice of pizza. That one slice of pizza isn’t
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John Knowles novel‚ A Separate Peace‚ portrays wars on three distinct levels. These levels could be described as outer‚ inner‚ and world. There is a very good definition of these wars at the closing of the novel which shows us the levels: ’I could never agree with either of them. It would have been comfortable‚ but I could not believe it. Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities‚ but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the
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Do you know anybody that acts differently when they are alone‚ or with people they do not know‚ than they do when they are around their friends and family? Perhaps you act this way. A Separate Peace and The Catcher in the Rye are different in the idea that in most cases‚ while Holden is alone he is very extroverted‚ but when he is around people he is very introverted. Gene is the direct opposite; when he is alone or around strangers he is introverted and reserved‚ but when he is with his friends
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The Webster’s New World College Dictionary (Agnes 1999‚397) defines dialect as “a form or variety of a spoken language including the standard form‚ peculiar to a region‚ community‚ social group‚ occupational… and although it includes the standard form of language spoken by the region‚ community…it differs from it in matters of pronunciation‚ syntax …”. But somehow‚ the Caribbean dialect has been a form of expression which has still not been widely accepted or respected by people living within the
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