language a news reporter uses‚ compared to that of a chat show host. This also applies to different people talking about the same subject; this can be illustrated in the study of Jamie Oliver’s and Gordon Ramsay’s unique adaptations of spoken language to suit the audience and purpose of their different cooking shows. Jamie oliver: supports his laidback attitude Target audience: 30 younger – slang and childish prhases
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dialogue is easy to understand‚ and reflects the people of the generation. The novels protagonist‚ Tom Joad is a simple man who has recently been released from prison. He is not sophisticated. He acts as he does‚ and does as he acts. He speaks in a dialect like everyone else in the novel‚ and he is easy to understand. Steinbeck wanted him to be relatable to others reading the novel. His writing differs from others that have been popular such as Dickens and Shakespeare. No reader could easily identify
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The fast food industry all over the world has grown dramatically during the last few years‚ and apparently people in the U.S. spend more money on fast food than in daily life groceries. It seems so wrong to change homemade food for things like pre-elaborated patties‚ frozen fries and soda but there is so much more than the obvious high calories and low nutrients contents in these foods‚ there had been several scandals of all kinds regarding the hygiene and the quality of the products that many fast
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between language and dialect. Language is one of the fundamental things for our daily living. The main reason behind development a society is communication and there is no doubt the language is the best way of communication so far. So we can say that the contribution of language for human civilization is enormous. As a language community a community can be own difference of expression‚ attitude‚ tone‚ accent. That is making a language variation in same community. This is called dialect. Before the
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What we call a "Chicago accent" is actually called the Inland North American dialect. This encompasses the major cities around the Great Lakes. The dialect used to be considered the standard American accent until the region experienced a vowel shift‚ now called the North Cities Vowel Shift. Who Speaks the Chicago Dialect? Or rather‚ who doesn’t? The answer‚ of course‚ is African Americans in the Chicago region‚ who have their own (and infinitely more interesting) dialect. Though this may be obvious
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definitions of „Dialect‟‚ „Standard and Non Standard Language‟‚ „National Language‟ and „Varieties of English‟‚ and „Stylistics‟. Also read the relevant course material that define and explain these terms and then answer the questions that follow. A dialect is a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the speakers‟ language. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns‚ but a dialect may also be defined by other factors‚ such as social class. Dialect therefore
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Shanghai has its own spoken language. Of course‚ technically speaking it’s a dialect. One of the 248 Chinese dialects identified by Wikipedia. Shanghainese is gigantically different from Mandarin. If I say something in Shanghainese to a Beijinger‚ I’m bound to get a confused look‚ and possibly some eye-rolling. It gets better. Even within the city itself‚ there are a few mini-dialects. People from the outer suburbs have accents‚ and sometimes vocabulary‚ that are slightly different from their fellow
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though minor‚ is the regional area I live. Although my accent isn’t very broad and I mainly speak using Standard English‚ I have spent my whole life living in derby and use several dialect words including “knackered” (meaning tired) and “mardy” (someone who’s acting childish). My parents don’t have very strong Derby accents; however my uncle’s is particularly broad.
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RP Dialect: refers to the varieties distinguished from each other by differences of grammar and vocabulary. Accent: on the other hand‚ refers to variations in pronunciation. RP stands for “received pronunciation”. Received here is understood in its nineteeth-century sense of accepted in the most polite circles of society. RP remained the accent of those in the upper reaches of the social scale‚ as measured by education‚ income and profession‚ or title. It has traditionally been the accent of
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Throughout Seeing Race in Modern America‚ scholar Matthew Pratt Guterl explores how cultural “sightlines” (Guterl 2) resist change over time in the way we see race as he argues that race is a “social construction of color” (Guterl 3)‚ dependant on visual cues. Guterl uses a myriad of visual culture‚ such as advertisements‚ movies‚ and popular culture as evidence that making race visual is what causes its longevity. In his analysis of “sightlines that challenge the eye‚” (Guterl 128) he turns to movies
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