A)Dialects are a natural ‚ invevitable part of cultural and regional differences in American society. Discuss one or two examples of dialects seen in the video.(Please no more than 2 examples.) Example 1 BOSTON WOMAN: I was engaged for awhile to a “Yalie” who sounded like a Yalie to me‚ although he had a trace of a Southern accent. I thought sort a Bill Faulkner‚ Truman Capote accent‚ you know‚ when you’re twenty you don’t‚ you know‚ make these distinctions and I went home to
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Dialects in American Literature In the late 19th and early 20th centuries dialect was not common in American Literature. Writers who attempted to accurately capture American dialect and slang often failed to make it believable. In my essay‚ "Dialects in American Literature‚" I will compare and contrast three writers who used dialect in their writings and explain the difference between effective and ineffective use of dialect. The writers I will be discussing are Mark Twain‚ Bret Harte‚ and
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The Dialects of American English Before I learn sociolinguistics class‚ I think it is quite difficult to tell what the difference between language and dialect is. But‚ after I had learned I found out that language is something that mankind use to communicate to each other. Language is a big word. It concludes dialect‚ vernacular‚ and so on. Nevertheless‚ dialect is the language that use only in idiolect‚ only use in their group. For me‚ I think that there are many dialects in each country. For
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gyung sang region dialect. My dad was born and raised jealla area till he got married so my dad and his all family speak jealla region dialect. These two region dialects have pretty different accents. I speak the standard Korean because I born and raised Seoul. Also‚ since my mom and dad speaks different dialects‚ I am able to speak my parents’ directs consciously. As I grow up‚ I realized that people in these two area have different characteristics in society. That is related to dialect and social prejudice
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Speaking is people’s one of basic functions. Without speaking‚ we cannot communicate with others. Of course‚ there are many languages in the world and even a number of dialects in one country. Those dialects may more and less effect people’s lives and people can gradually know the areas’ backgrounds and cultures throughout the dialects. In China‚ because its 5000-year history‚ from east to west or north to south‚ there are so many different ways to speak in this 9‚600‚000 km2 magic land. An old Chinese
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million people living in the central part of the country. The Cebuano people have been using a single dialect but with different accent‚ pronunciation‚ meaning‚ and the way they deliver it. Cebuano is the language spoken in the provinces of Cebu‚ Negros Oriental‚ Bohol‚ Southern Leyte and Southern Masbate. The purpose of this study is to distinguish the variations and difference of our own Cebuano Dialect. Before the Spaniards and other Europeans came to the Visayas‚ there was no word or place called
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Strong accents and dialects are dying out because of the world today needs standard clear communication where everyone speaks and writes in the same way. It is better not to reveal your wealth and status with your accent. Discuss with reference to your own regional voice. We all speak with an accent and we all speak a dialect these include both the Standard English dialect and the Modern Non-standard Dialects. There are variations of accents according to a speaker’s age‚ gender‚ ethnicity and social
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A dialect continuum is a range of dialects spoken across a large geographical area‚ differing only slightly between areas that are geographically close to each other‚ and gradually decreasing in mutual intelligibility as the distances become greater. Dialects separated by great geographical distances may not be mutually comprehensible. According to the Ausbausprache - Abstandsprache - Dachsprache paradigm‚ these dialects can be considered Abstandsprachen (i.e.‚ as stand-alone languages). However
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SYNOPSIS The problem to be investigated: The dialect of Palashbari (Palashbaria) and Pati Darrang (Patidarrangia) : A comparative study. Introduction: Because of some political‚ social‚ cultural and geographical causes‚ if a particular area with certain language is not communicated in a regular basis‚ then the language of that area forms regional dialects. The Assamese language which is used and spread in a large area of both the two banks of the Brahmaputra valley also gives birth to various
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1528-3542/07/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.1.131 Toward a Dialect Theory: Cultural Differences in the Expression and Recognition of Posed Facial Expressions Hillary Anger Elfenbein University of California‚ Berkeley Martin Beaupre ´ University of Quebec at Montreal Manon Levesque ´ Omar Bongo University Ursula Hess University of Quebec at Montreal Two studies provided direct support for a recently proposed dialect theory of communicating emotion‚ positing that expressive displays
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