LING 160 Guidelines for Exam 2 Exam Date‚ Time‚ and Room # Exam 2 is on Thursday‚ March 28‚ 2012‚ room #3310‚ at 2:30 p.m. It will be about one hour long. Exam Format Mostly multiple-choice questions and a few open-ended‚ short-answer questions‚ like exam 1. We’ll have between 45 and 50 questions total. Unless stated otherwise‚ provide short‚ bullet-like‚ answers to the open-ended questions including only the relevant information and skipping unnecessary parts. For example‚ do not write “I
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The first thing to note is that the votes for Latino/Hispanic English are more evenly distributed across both scales‚ compared to AAE’s peak towards the high end of the scales. Still‚ the average rank numbers for Latino/Hispanic English are 4.5 (correct-ness) and 3.7 (pleasantness). This yields the biggest difference between correctness and pleasantness in this study (0.8 discrepancy). While participants perceive this dialect to be almost as correct/incorrect as AAE‚ Latino/Hispanic English is ranked
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AAVE African American Vernacular English (AAVE)—also called African American English; less precisely Black English‚ Black Vernacular‚ Black English Vernacular(BEV)‚ or Black Vernacular English (BVE)—is a variety (dialect‚ ethnolect‚ and sociolect) of American English‚ most commonly spoken today by urban working-classand largely bi-dialectal middle-class African Americans.[1] Non-linguists sometimes call it Ebonics (a term that also has other meanings and connotations). It shares parts of its grammar and phonology with
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The study of language By: ... Semester: ..; Group: .. 2012/2013 Plan: ✓ Introduction. ✓ Varieties of language. ✓ Language‚ culture and thought. ✓ Speech as social interaction. ✓ The quantitative study of speech. Introduction:
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African American culture in the United States refers to the cultural contributions of Americans of African descent to the culture of the United States‚ either as part of or distinct from American culture. The distinct identity of African American culture is rooted in the historical experience of the African American people. The culture is both distinct and enormously influential to American culture as a whole. African-American culture is rooted in Africa. It is a blend of chiefly sub-Saharan African
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African American Culture in a Modern American Dominant Sociology Intro to Sociology September 3‚ 2010 Janice Caparro African American culture in the United States refers to the cultural contributions of Americans African descent to the culture of the United States‚ either as part of or distinct from American culture. The distinct identity of African American culture is rooted in the historical experience of the African American people. The culture is both distinct and enormously influential
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NAME:___________________ Year 12 English Language Revision Pack 1. Complete many practice exams and correct them yourself (exams and suggested answers are on MOODLE). Do them under time constraints 2 hours with 15 mins reading and figure out a way to do them that suits you. Do them at 3pm. You will also be completing one in class during week 1‚ term 4. 2. Create flip cards with all the terms listed (unless you are 100% sure you know them) – give the word on one side‚ then definition
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In Losing the Race‚ John McWhorter speaks about the “disease of defeatism that has infected black America.” In the novel he explores in detail three aspects of modern day black American cultural mentality‚ or "cults‚" that hold African Americans back. First‚ is the Cult of Victimology. In it‚ victimhood has been transformed “from a problem to be solved into an identity in itself.” Then there is the Cult of Separatism‚ in this cult‚ the uniqueness of our history is used as a justification to exempt
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variety dialect (a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology‚ grammar‚ and vocabulary‚ and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially)‚ ethnolect (a variety of a language spoken by a certain ethnic/cultural subgroup and serves primarily as a language‚ but can also be a distinguishing mark of social identity‚ both within the group and by outsiders)‚ and sociolect (a variety of a language used
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AN ANALYSIS OF COCKNEY ACCENT AS BEING ACCUSED OF A WORKING CLASS ACCENT OF LONDONERS by Atik Choirun Nisa A320120201 Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta atiknissa@gmail.com ABSTRACT This research is intended to explain why the Cockney accent is considered as a working class accent in London. The type of the study is descriptive qualitative. There are three techniques of collecting data‚ namely: observation‚ interview‚ and analyzing document. Methods of analyzing data are discussion‚ display data
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