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    The Cockney Dialect

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    History‚ Dialect‚ and Slang of East London Christopher Sharpe Ohio University November 7th‚ 2011 It’s rhyming slang you know‚ like bee’s honey… money. Like I could say give me the bee’s (TV Movies‚ 2011). This is an example of the Cockney Rhyming Slang from the dialect of the same name produced in East London. The Cockney dialect has not only been prominent in East London but in London as whole. The lower working class of London has spoken the Cockney dialect for centuries

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    Social Dialects

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    Social dialects Rothstain and S.Rothstain (2009)‚ they difined dialect a an aspect of language that refers to variation in pronunciation‚ words and‚ grammar of a specific language and as a part of every language‚ resulting from geographic‚ occupational and social differences. Read(1986)‚ said that dialect can be divided into social and regional varieties. Regional dialects are difened geographically; social dialect are difined by socioeconomic and sociocultural characteristics

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    Dialect Variation

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    Dialect Variation in Tamil Tamil is one of the ancient languages of the world with records inthe language dating back over two millennia. Its origins are notprecisely known‚ but it developed and flourished in India as a language with a rich literature. With an estimated 30‚000inscriptions‚ Tamil has the largest number of inscriptions in South Asia. Tamil belongs to the southern branch of the Dravidian languages‚a family of around twenty-six languages native to the Indian subcontinent. It is

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    Mcguinness Dialect

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    deep stereotypes as characters allows for their actions to be predictable. However when one reads through the play‚ one cannot help but recognize and appreciate the true fourth character‚ which is the language. The choice of having three English-dialects helps to create at atmosphere that is both familiar for the audience and comical from the start. Through the use of dark humor McGuinness is able take a dire situation and bring light to it. The men themselves use language as a means to bring light

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    An Examination of Southern Dialect as Seen in the Works of William Faulkner In the writings of William Faulkner‚ the reader may sense that the author has created an entire world‚ which directly reflects his own personal experience. Faulkner writes about the area in and around Mississippi‚ where he is from‚ during the post-Civil War period. It is most frequently Northern Mississippi that Faulkner uses for his literary territory‚ changing Oxford to "Jefferson" and Lafayette County to "Yoknapatawpha

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    Regional Social Dialects

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    Week 4 Lecture Regional & Social Dialects WHAT CAN YOU TELL ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE SPEAKERS? Notes on Examples  Reasonable (even accurate) guesses about speaker’s various characteristics e.g. socio-economic or educational background esp. for English accents in Britain • With distinctive regional accent  origin even from short utterance Holmes (2008) p. 127 3 Characteristics of Speech • Remember? No two people speak the same! – ∞ sources of variation e

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    Cebuano Dialect

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    accents‚ morphological processes‚ and regional dialects. Includes a language map showing the areas where Cebuano is spoken. Contains a total of 2‚285 example Cebuano sentences. Each Cebuano sentence has a corresponding English translation. Contains 300 grammar formulas covering all aspects of the Cebuano language. Contains 100 commonly used verbs. Each verb is displayed on its own page with up to 23 conjugations listed. Each conjugation has an example Cebuano sentence and its corresponding English

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    Dialect Journals

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    Claudia Arizaga Mrs. Trout English 2(H) 14 May 2013 Christian Existentialism in Native Son Several people wonder‚ what is the purpose of life? Others may accept as true that they make their own choices in life. In reality‚ one’s life is not determined by the individual‚ but by a higher authority. Jean-Paul Sartre lectures about the meaning of life through “Existentialism is Humanism.” He jots down two sides of existentialism: Christian and Atheist side. Christian existentialism is defined with

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    Iraqi Arabic Dialect

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    consonants‚ thus a change of the linear order of the word segments takes place. Also‚ Arabic dialects differ from Standard Arabic in that they have a reduced and restructured consonant system but more complexity in the vowel system. The rules of syllable structure and accentuation are also different and some inventory vowels in the actual pronunciation of words have been realized in spoken Arabic varieties. For example the word “Zambalak” in standard Arabic which means spring in English is pronounced in

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    African American Dialect

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    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 the dialects of the Southern United States. Several creolists‚ including William Stewart‚ John Dillard

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