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    Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Literature Guide Developed by Kristen Bowers for Secondary Solutions® ISBN 0-9772295-4-8 © 2006 Secondary Solutions. All rights reserved. A classroom teacher who has purchased this guide may photocopy the materials in this publication for his/her classroom use only. Use or reproduction by a part of or an entire school or school system‚ by for-profit tutoring centers and like institutions‚ or for commercial sale‚ is strictly prohibited

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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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    Dialect is an extremely complex type of correspondence that happens amongst humankind and creatures. The vast majority of the general population say that creatures don’t have a bona fide dialect like people‚ yet like us‚ they likewise speak with each other through gesture based communication‚ outward appearances and sounds. On account of Koko‚ I trust that she is utilizing dialect as a part of human way: she imparts in her own particular communication through signing by a dynamic vocabulary of more

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    the fixed set of morals of the society a person is in‚ because of language/dialect expectations‚ first impressions/stereotyping‚ and religious pressures. If someone lives in a country that predominantly speaks a certain way‚ that person is considered “weird” if their vernacular is different from the culture’s. In “The Perfect Voice‚” Carl Elliott explains that a person that speaks a certain language or with a certain dialect is automatically stereotyped in certain regions of the world. For example

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    different dialects of it. A dialect is a variety in a language based on the region. Some of the many different dialects of American English are New York English‚ Coastal Southern English‚ Black English and many others (Vajda). Now‚ how can American English be called a "pure" language when it its own country‚ it is divided

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    using non-standard Bahasa or Malay that is Peranakan ( Chinese Straits) to their children. When I ask them why they can t speak Chinese‚ they say that their parents never taught them although I knew my grandparents do speak in one of the chinese dialect. My parents felt comfortable communicating in Peranakan as the surrounding neighbours too are using the language. As for me‚ I get to learn the language as my mother tongue and

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    adapted in different situations and how the attitudes of other people influenced these adaptions Over the years as time passes by our language progresses and develops. People all around the world will have their own form of how they speak different dialects‚ languages or accents. Today I’m going to be exploring and evaluating the factors that affect the way my own spoken language can adapt in different situations and how the attitudes of other people influence these adaptions. In everyday life I adapt

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    the speech of individuals and groups. Linguistics 201‚ May 28‚ 2001 Kordula De Kuthy 1 Dialect 2 Accent Any variety of a language characterized by systematic differences in pronunciation‚ grammar‚ and vocabulary from other varieties of the same language is called a dialect. Everyone speaks a dialect – in fact‚ many dialects at different levels. The people who speak a certain dialect are called a speech community. Some of the larger dialectal divisions in the English speaking

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    I chose to analyze my reflective piece entitled “If dem doh care why should I” by the use of primarily investigating dialect variation and communicative behaviors. Dialectal variation refers to the variety of a language due to geographic‚ individual and group factors. In the monologue the two main dialects used were Creole and Standard English. Creole is a language with pidgin in its ancestry that is spoken as a native language

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    determined by their geographic location.  (Most words are listed in the pinyin spellings‚ not the older Wade-Giles system)
 Go to Chinese Place Names http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/chinalan.htm ACTIVITY 3: Britspeak: Same Language‚ Different Dialects
 Sometimes misunderstandings occur because words have multiple meanings‚ and meanings can change over time due to the dynamic nature of language.  English has an extensive vocabulary‚ and words used in Great Britain may have alternate meanings than

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