Shanghai has its own spoken language. Of course‚ technically speaking it’s a dialect. One of the 248 Chinese dialects identified by Wikipedia. Shanghainese is gigantically different from Mandarin. If I say something in Shanghainese to a Beijinger‚ I’m bound to get a confused look‚ and possibly some eye-rolling. It gets better. Even within the city itself‚ there are a few mini-dialects. People from the outer suburbs have accents‚ and sometimes vocabulary‚ that are slightly different from their fellow
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though minor‚ is the regional area I live. Although my accent isn’t very broad and I mainly speak using Standard English‚ I have spent my whole life living in derby and use several dialect words including “knackered” (meaning tired) and “mardy” (someone who’s acting childish). My parents don’t have very strong Derby accents; however my uncle’s is particularly broad.
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RP Dialect: refers to the varieties distinguished from each other by differences of grammar and vocabulary. Accent: on the other hand‚ refers to variations in pronunciation. RP stands for “received pronunciation”. Received here is understood in its nineteeth-century sense of accepted in the most polite circles of society. RP remained the accent of those in the upper reaches of the social scale‚ as measured by education‚ income and profession‚ or title. It has traditionally been the accent of
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friends and our own sense of identity. As we move across the country we experience the changing landscape and architecture. At the same time we notice a gradual change in the sounds we hear the accents and dialects that immediately conjure up a sense of the place to which they belong. The terms accent and dialect are often used interchangeably‚ although in strict linguistic terms they refer to different aspects of language variation.
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toward the connections between language and society‚ and the way we use it in different social situations. It ranges from the study of the wide variety of dialects across a given region down to the analysis between the way men and women speak to one another. Sociolinguistics often shows us the humorous realities of human speech and how a dialect of a given language can often describe the age‚ sex‚ and social class of the speaker; it codes the social function of a language. Any discussion
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localities where they were born‚ whereas in the US since the 19th century there has been an enormous expansion and movement of the English-speaking population. Geographically‚ three main dialect areas broadly characterise linguistic variation in the US: 1. Northeastern‚ 2. Southern‚ 3. General American. The Northeastern accent is heard in New England and NY State‚ not in NY City (extending to west‚ to include Pennsylvania and the Midwestern states of Ohio‚ Indiana‚ Illinois‚ and north-west into the Dakotas);
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etymological doublets. In English there are some groups of them: Latino-French doublets. Latin English from Latin English from French uncia inch ounce moneta mint money camera camera chamber Franco-French doublets doublets borrowed from different dialects of French. Norman Paris canal channel captain chieftain catch chaise Scandinavian-English doublets Scandinavian English skirt
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Dialects refers to how words are pronounced. Your demographic location and social class can affect your dialect; how you pronounce and say certain words. I am from Texas and when I speak you can easily hear my southern accent so I identify with other texans. Also‚ jargon’s that are used can help classify individuals into a category. But I think to answer your question language helps to define individuals easily because when a person speaks it is very easy to detect where they might be from and also
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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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Indo- European language family. The goal of this paper is to deeply look into and study the differences between the German and English grammar. The English language is classified as a West Germanic language. It originated as an Anglo- Frisian dialect; and was later introduced to Britain by Germanic invaders who spoke Anglo-Saxon. Due to Scandinavian invasions in the 8th and 9th centuries‚ Norse was introduced to England. This new language resembled Anglo-Saxon; however‚ it was different enough
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