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    Finn‚ by Mark Twain‚ the author uses dialects and‚ someone say‚ vulgar language to bring to bring forward many of the issues society faced in the time period following the Civil War. With the use of many different dialects in the novel‚ Twain is not only able to create vivid‚ realistic characters but is also able to show his beliefs concerning education‚ and family upbringing through his characters. The main character‚ Huckleberry Finn‚ has a unique dialect that is introduced to us in the opening

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    Since the very earliest times there were four dialects in OE: Nourthumbrian (1) ‚ spoken by Angles living north of the Humber. Mercian West-Saxon(2)‚ spoken by Angles between the Humber and Thames. The Mercian dialect: Translation of the Psalter (9 th c.) and hymns.The Runic texts of the Ruthwell Cross and Frank’s Casket (Runic)‚ translation of the gospels‚ Caedmon’s Humn and Bede’s Dying Song. Kentish‚ the language of the Jutes and Frisians. The West dialect is represented by the works of kind Alfred

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    Pidgin: Dialect of English Spoken on the Hawaiian Islands Pidgin is a dialect of English spoken in the Hawaiian Islands. It consists of the shortening of many words commonly used in everyday English speech. Some examples include‚ da (the)‚ odda (other)‚ Tre (meaning tree and three)‚ bra (anyone you know)‚ da kine (anything you don’t know)‚ cus (any friend)‚ and many others. Pidgin has it’s social barriers as well. It is primarily spoken in the lower class neighborhoods consisting of the Hawaiians

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    perception of individuals or specific groups‚ the Garcia family attempts to overcome various challenges. They start to lose aspects of what make them unique‚ such as their accents and cultural heritage‚ illustrating the reality many face worldwide due to the lack of celebration in diversity. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez is a historical fiction novel that unravels the difficult transition for the four Garcia girls- Sandi‚ Sophia‚ Yolanda‚ and Carla alongside their parents

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    How the Garcia Girls lost their Accents. In How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents‚ Julia Alvarez discusses the four girls’transition from the Dominican Republic to America. The Garcia’s are an immigrant family who must find a balance between their identity as Dominicans and their new identities as Americans. Yolanda‚ the sister on whom the story primarily focuses‚ must find a balance between the strict and old fashioned culture she comes from and the new‚ innovative and radical culture she is

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    Carolina Exit Exam and displayed dialect diversity. The purpose of the study was to allow linguistic learners to share what they know and to provide them with instructional strategies to code switch. The two students discussed in the case study‚ Demain and Josiah are both native speakers of the African American English dialect‚ known in Charleston as the Sea Island Dialect. The researchers wanted to provide the students with strategies to code switch between the Island Dialect and Standard English. Demain

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    BOOK REPORT. 1. How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. 2. Julia Alvarez in 1950 - 1990. 3. Born in New York of Dominican descent‚ she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic. 4. Major Characters; Carla - As the oldest amongst the four girls‚ she feels left out and out of place when her family moved to the United States and finds it hard to fit in her new social and cultural environment. She was harassed at school by malicious and prejudiced boys‚ and felt

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    Explain the trends of dialect leveling and internal variation in the process of development of new varieties of Englishes. "Dialect differences are reduced as speakers acquire features from other varieties as well as avoid features from their own variety that are somehow different. This may occur over several generations until a stable compromise dialect develops."(Siegel‚ 1997) The writer here is referring the linguistic accommodation made by speakers with different dialects to eventually converge

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    Abraham Lincoln: The Abolishment of Slavery Through Dialect Abraham Lincoln was a dialogic rhetorician who seemed intent on prompting others to discussion and action through the power of words. The one great consistency that exists across the rhetoric of Lincoln’s early administration is that‚ in conversations with friends and critics‚ in his written correspondence and in his public speeches‚ he listened‚ considered‚ and then replied to the arguments of others. With the determination to abolish

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    A Personal Dialect In Amy Tan’s essay‚ “Mother Tongue‚” Tan expresses that she uses different versions of the English language depending on the type of relationship she shares with particular individuals. While Tan gave a speech to a group of people‚ she noticed a difference in her register of speech when she spoke to a group of people versus when she spoke to her mother. She noticed her use of “carefully wrought grammatical phrases” and “the forms of standard English that I had learned in school

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