tell you‚ and you cant relate it with another one‚ you get stuck‚ and you lose the rest of the idea because you stop thinking about that NEW word. 2. Accents / dialects: there’s a lot of difference speaking with a person of your same country‚ than speaking with a foreign person‚ why?‚ it’s so simple‚ because they have different accent or dialect‚ so they pronounce a lot different the words‚ so if they are saying a simple sentence‚ it becomes a difficult one‚ cause you won’t understand them quite
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sympathetic way. Street lingo An accent is the way a certain group of people pronounce words‚ phrases and sentences‚ including dropping sounds and joining up sounds from words. Accents often show which country people are from or which area within a country people are from. Traditionally‚ accent would denote social background. A dialect is the type of language typical to a particular groups of the language’s speakers‚ often dependant on where someone is from. Different dialects have their own vocabulary
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a local restaurant‚ where waiters and waitresses spoke Cantonese. They did not take me seriously after they distinguished that I was not a native‚ just like what Tan’s mother experienced. This is my first time to feel that my accent embarrassed me. I realized that accents could incur
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beings‚ but rather‚ something that makes up a part of who we are. KEY WORDS>Dialect variation‚Sociolect‚ Register The life of language intermingles with the life of society. Language must also be profitably studied in its social context‚in so doing‚ we learn both about language and about
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American Culture The American Culture is rich‚ complex‚ and unique. Our culture‚ which is an important component of the nation’s identity‚ emerged from short‚ rapid European invasion of the Americas‚ sparsely settled by diverse native peoples. The African’s arrival added yet another layer of unique cultural complexity to the territories named the New World. These three cultures‚ European‚ Indian‚ and African were very different and yet a lot alike. Their ways of life were greatly diverse although
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`0 Sharon Goodman (1996) She states that we are living in a time of increased in-formalisation. Informal language used to be reserved for close personal relationships but this isn’t the simplicity anymore. Norman Fairclough agrees and calls it conversationalised language. David Crystal (2001) In his book on language and the internet Crystal refers to dialogic e-messaging which refers to immediate communication rather than traditional
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Phonology Indian accents vary greatly. Some Indians speak English with an accent very close to a Standard British (Received Pronunciation) accent (though not the same); others lean toward a more ’vernacular’‚ native-tinted‚ accent for their English speech. [edit] Vowels In general‚ Indian English has fewer peculiarities in its vowel sounds than the consonants‚ especially as spoken by native speakers of languages like Hindi‚ the vowel phoneme system having some similarities with that of English
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Chicano and had trouble learning English bdue to her native tongue. She faced quandaries as a child because she had trouble grasping English and spoke with a Hispanic accent. She explains that “At Pan American University‚ I and all Chicano students were required to take two speech classes. Their purpose: to get rid of our accents. Attacks on one’s form of expression with the intent to censor are a violation of the First Amendment. El Anglo con cara de inocente nos arrancó la lengua. Wild tongues
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Language & Literacy 1 Language & Literacy: for Young Children
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Mary Beth Strickland Professor Boze English 1120 13 February 2012 Lady and the Tramp and Cultural Stereotypes in the 1950’s Cultural Studies is the study of shared patterns of behavior and the evolution of them over a period of time. Cultural studies are important because it plays a huge part in social transformation and informs us on the world’s view of certain topics like race‚ and through race‚ stereotypes are naturally created. The cultural of race has been a huge phenomenon of great importance
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