Jordan Kohl Professor Maryann Perna SEC1310.146 Paper Three Rough Draft 10/14/14 Languages define a culture itself and every language in the world expresses the heart and spirit of people who speak it. Languages explain the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication. Everyone has a language that they convey and pursue in everyday activities. Gloria Anzaldua‚ author of “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”‚ is a Mexican American woman who takes great pride in her culture
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transport and communication‚ and technology. One of the biggest reasons why the British Empire was a force for good was the spreading of the English language. In many countries in Africa and Asia‚ such as Kenya‚ Ghana and India‚ people spoke their own dialects. When the British Empire took over‚ the colonizers took this as a chance to teach the local people English. They mostly taught English in missionary schools‚
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Language is a constant. It is a component that will be forever intertwined into the fabrication of our global society. This multi-sensory means of communication‚ consists of not only the verbal and writing‚ but also touch‚ smell‚ sound‚ body‚ and gestural elements. As human beings are social animals‚ people have the instinct to communicate with others‚ to share our feelings and thoughts‚ and as a result‚ language development in each individual becomes an instinct (Pinker‚ 1994). Since language is
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popular music‚ books)‚ in education‚ and on the Internet. The final chapter looks at the future of English as a global language‚ focusing on debates about its status within the United States and the possibility of its fragmentation into regional dialects (Crystal suggests these might end up coexisting with some form of "World Standard Spoken English"). With just 150 pages to cover such a broad topic‚ superficiality is hardly avoidable. (The maps could easily have been improved on‚ however: most
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her mother did not speak perfect English‚ but the points and ideas she was trying to get across are what really were important. Not all people who speak the English language speak it the same way. A language can be subdivided into any number of dialects which each vary in some way from the parent English language. Mother Tongue‚ is an article based on the power of language; without standard language skills‚ one is identified as an outsider‚ often wrongly perceived and unfairly discriminated against
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Mother Tongue Not all people who speak the English language speak it the same way. A language can be subdivided into any number of dialects which each vary in some way from the parent English language. “Mother Tongue‚” an article based on the power of language; without standard language skills‚ one is identified as an outsider‚ often wrongly perceived and unfairly discriminated against. In the article Amy Tan describes her observation and thoughts about the use of the English language and the
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other hand‚ some people disregard it. From my prospective‚ every language is important to the human society. It might be true that some languages are not used as widely as English‚ Chinese and other popular languages. For example‚ some local dialects are used by a few hundreds of people in their tribes. Hence‚ some people think that the language itself is not important as even it goes extinct‚ it would only have impact on a minimal amount of users. However‚ it is irrational to judge whether
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Are You Down With Slang? The English language is one of the most diverse if not the most diverse language in the world. It is spoken in many countries and spoken with different dialects within those countries. Ranging from different pronunciations to completely different meanings for words. Flip-flops in America are known as thongs in Australia and tap in Britain is a faucet in America. Each country also has its own form of slang that other English speaking countries may not understand. Slang
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regions of the world so were the masters. With all the different tongues combination came the complicated but interesting language Creole. Jamaicans themselves usually refer to their dialect as patois‚ a French term without a precise linguistic definition. The most unique of the languages of Jamaica is a dialect formed by the amalgamation of words from many languages with English. It is known as
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India. The term international language is increasingly becoming a replacement for standard English. So what is ebonics? Ebonics is derived from the words "ebony" and "phonics‚" when they were put together‚ ebonics was born. It is considered "black dialect." It is to my understanding that ebonics is slang. Because when I looked the word slang up in the dictionary‚ the definition was: the nonstandard vocabulary of a given culture‚
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