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    things such as accent‚ vocabulary‚ grammar and non-verbal communication and is influenced by things such as the region they live in‚ age‚ personal experiences‚ age‚ occupation and social groups they belong to. Growing up in Newquay during the 70’s‚ having moved from Indian Queens‚ with the town still retaining a mostly Cornish community I inevitably acquired a Cornish accent. Despite my upbringing I don’t think I speak with what many would regard as a stereotypical Cornish accent. I consider this

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    beginning when the first words were uttered‚ the ability to communicate has played an important role in our world. Words can hurt‚ heal‚ create‚ build and transform. Language is obviously a vital tool that unites people. Every nation has their dialect and specific slang that made them unique. The variations depend also on the age categories. In American society people of each generation have been adding new meanings and new words into the conversations in order to reflect the experiences‚ beliefs and values

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    and use more non-standard English or slang words‚ such as “wha`ever” or “dunno”. I am comfortable around my friends and worry less about sounding ‘proper’; however I also want to belong to the group and share in our common sociolect In contrast‚ when speaking to a person of authority‚ like

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    number of factors; one of which includes the location and of whom they are speaking with. In the popular TV series‚ The Wire‚ the audience is introduced to the first transcript set in a deprived area of Baltimore where many of the street jargon slang and social accent is prominent. In comparison‚ language that is used in a courtroom of the second transcript is far more formal than street language. In the first transcript the purpose of the detective whom is communicating with the witness is in charge

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    ‫ﻛﺎرﺷﻨﺎﺳﻲ و ﻛﺎرﺷﻨﺎﺳﻲ ارﺷﺪ و ﻛﺎرﺷﻨﺎﺳﻲ ﻧﺎﭘﻴﻮﺳﺘﻪ‬ :( ) : ‫ﺗﺸﺮﻳﺤﻲ‬ : ‫ﺳﺮي ﺳﻮال‬ : ‫زﻣﺎن آزﻣﻮن )دﻗﻴﻘﻪ( : ﺗﺴﺘﻲ‬ : ‫ﺗﺸﺮﻳﺤﻲ‬ ‚ ‚ ‚ ‚ ‚ : ‫ﺗﻌﺪاد ﺳﻮاﻻت : ﺗﺴﺘﻲ‬ : ‫ﻋﻨــﻮان درس‬ : ‫رﺷﺘﻪ ﺗﺤﺼﻴﻠﻲ/ﻛﺪ درس‬ 1- All the following terms show implying something which is not said‚or an additional conveyed meaning‚ Except--------. 1. Direct speech act 2. Indirect speech act 3. Implicature 4. Inference 2- Which of the following is not considered as a cohesive tie? 1. Act of

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    suggest that some people deliberately choose a low status accent as a way of invoking prestige‚ although this is less common amongst women than men. The Australian-born children of migrants from Europe‚ Asia and the Pacific Islands are asserting their respective cultural blends each time they open their mouths‚ leading to dozens of different ethnic dialects such as ‘wogspeak’‚ that much-parodied blend of Australian and various Mediterranean accents. (From ‘Strine feels the strain with Austrayan twang

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    American English The three original American dialects — New England‚ Mid-Atlantic and Southern — all had their origins in different areas of England and reproduce many of the characteristics of those areas. The varieties of Southern English‚ as well as the Midwestern twang‚ evolved in consequence of these dialects’ rubbing together. Non-English dialects have had relatively little influence‚ except in semantics and several structures which are clearly marked as non-English in origin (for example

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    (IPA) • phonetic transcription (there will be a key) • prosodic features (pitch‚ stress‚ and intonation) • sounds in connected speech (elision‚ assimilation‚ dissimilation‚ metathesis‚ epenthesis) • Broad‚ General and Cultivated accents in Australian English; • Phonological stylistic features (alliteration‚ assonance‚ consonance‚ onomatopoeia‚ rhythm‚ rhyme) Morphology and Lexicology • parts of speech (noun‚ verb (auxiliary‚ modal)‚ adjective‚ adverb‚ preposition‚ pronoun

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    Oxford: Peter Lang Publishing Group. Crystal‚ D. 1995. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Davies‚ Diane. 2005. Varieties of Modern English. An Introduction. London: Longman. Fernando‚ Chitra. 1996. Idioms and Idiomaticity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hulban‚ H. 1975. English Lexicology. Iaşi: Editura Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”. Jackson‚ H. 1988. Words and their Meaning. London: Longman. Jackson‚ H. and Etienne Zé Amvela. 2007. Words‚

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    Accents Throughout this controlled assessment‚ I have noticed that I use different accents in different context. When I speak to my family and friends‚ I change my accent when having a conversation with them in English. Which is made apparent when I pronounce: “what else did you have just pizza and nothing else?” in a different accent on transcript 2. This is because I am of Bangladeshi ethnicity which has influenced the way I pronounce words. I may purposely speak in a Bangladeshi accent if I am

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