Free Essays on An Examination Of Southern Dialect

  1. Question Formation in African-American Vernacular English and Southern Dialect English

    English and Southern Dialect English by John Evar Strid Introduction According to the 2000 government census, the US has some 34 million people who identify themselves as Black or African-American. Many of those who identify themselves as African-American speak a distinct dialect of English...

  2. English Dialect

    Running head: ENGLISH DIALECT English Dialect Ted Abrams 01/16/2009 English Dialect African American English (AAE) is a dialect of American English used by many African Americans in modern society. This language is very unique and serves as a reflection of the changes that have occurred...

  3. GED 210 Unit 1 Examination Answers

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  4. GED 210 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Unit 4 Examination

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  5. Representations of Black English in the 19th Century and Its Influences

    ways of speech, but also the varying pronunciation of the many racial, regional, and social dialects. A growing trend of dialect-speaking characters in literature was seen. In many cases, however, the dialect used was severely exaggerated and portrayed the speaker as having a degree of inferiority (sometimes...

  6. maldives

    Minicoy in Union territory of Lakshadweep, India. All Maldivians share the same culture and speak the Maldivian language which is a member of the southern group of Indo-Aryan languages.[12] For ethnographic and linguistic purposes as well as geo-political reasons anthropologists divide the Maldivian...

  7. Term paper

    shares indistinct boundaries with other informal levels of vocabulary, such as colloquial usages, subgroup argots, and regional, class, and ethnic dialects. Slang is such a slippery concept that the idea of “popular speech”, a broader concept that includes slang, is now preferred by many writers on language...

  8. Apush Chapters 23-26 Vocab

    contributions from federal employees illegal and established the Civil Service Commission to make federal appointments on the basis of competitive examinations not personal influence; passed in the aftermath of President Garfield's assassination, the act reformed the political spoils system. 12. Grover...

  9. Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn

    Twain referred to in this novel. Twain even used familiar dialects in his novel. He stated at the beginning of the novel, "the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary Pike County dialect... are used to wit..." (Twain 1). In this book, as they ...

  10. African American Entglish

    American English The form of English that will be discussed in this paper is African American English. It is also called Black English. It is a dialect of American English and it is used by the majority of African Americans in some conditions or situations. This paper will discuss the evolution of...

  11. English

    international organisations. English has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English. Middle English began in the late 11th century with...

  12. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Realism

    especially in the Southern states. Now, can anyone imagine how the former slaves were treated before this document was enacted? Indeed slaves worked hard for no pay and were treated unfairly, like objects, rather than human beings. Southern states were dependent on slave labor and so the southern folks supported...

  13. Epistemology - summary

    to commit suicide. Miss Emily did not want to let go of her father’s dead body. The elements and examples of Southern Gothic genre where shown through out the whole story. Starting the Southern Gothic theme is at the very beginning when Miss Emily is buried. Not only that she has died, but she is laid...

  14. zora neal hurston

    her colleagues were urban and/or northern-born and influenced by European literary traditions, Hurston maintained a strong identification with rural southern folk culture. She was a figure of great controversy and died in poverty and obscurity, but she is embraced today as an important and revolutionary...

  15. A Lesson Before Dying Analysis

    education. The community did not expect much from the youngest generation of freed slaves; therefore, the prophecy became self-fulfilled. In southern literature, dialect distinguishes the different levels of society and education. Throughout the novel, Grant continuously is required to dumb down his speech...

  16. Latin American Culture

    different dialects of the Spanish Language. The language was originated from the Castile Region of Spain, which is also known as “castello”. Between the late 1400s to the 1800s the ships departed from Southern Spain into the different Canary Islands where each one developed their own dialect. There are...

  17. Diveh

    as Malé Bas and is based on the variant spoken in the capital of the country. The most important variants of the language are to be found in the southern atolls, namely Huvadu, Fua Mulaku and Addu. Slighter variants are spoken in Haddummati and in Minicoy Island, the latter being known as Maliku Bas...

  18. Italy

    virtues: hope (green), faith (white), and charity (red). ------------------------------------------------- Where is Italy? - Italy Map • Italy lies in Southern Europe, a flight to Rome take roughly 2.5 hours from London/England, 8 hours from New York/USA Italy is easy to recognize on any world map, as the country...

  19. lection

    1. 1.1.The English language originated from Anglo-Frisian dialects, which made part of the West Germanic language group. The Germanic tribes which conquered Britain in the 5th century belonged, as ancient; historians say, to three tribes, the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes. The earliest mention...

  20. Jerks

    By not educating their slaves, slave owners indirectly caused slaves to speak improperly for so long that it became a dialect of English that is now that very recognizable southern accent. African Americans are heavily responsible for creating and imposing this accent on the rest of the people who inhabited...

  21. Singapore Road names

    first, they used names that reflected their origins, thus, Amoy Street and Nankin Street (both Chinese cities), Malabar Street (a coastal region in southern India), Bugis Street, Kampong Java Road (after ethnic groups from parts of present-day Indonesia). Migrants tended to stay within enclaves and these...

  22. Jamaica

    sister told me all sorts of stories about how much fun she had coming down there the year before. She warned me that my relatives’ dialect was different from the Chicago dialect that I had grown so accustomed to. I honestly didn’t know what to expect. We finally had arrived on a Tuesday after a somewhat...

  23. Middle English Period

    functioned in English, in the later Middle Ages there was no such standardizing force active in the language. As a result documents preserve the local dialect in which they were composed or copied. This means that there is no standard use of forms, spelling, etc. in Middle English, which makes reading them...

  24. Black English

    West African languages and speakers of vernacular English varieties. According to such a view, West Africans learnt English on plantations in the southern Coastal States (Georgia, South Carolina, etc.) from a very small number of native speakers (the indentured laborers). Some suggest that this led to...

  25. Inherit the Wind

    faith.” There is also a cultural conflict between the North and the South. Hornbeck is a newspaper columnist from the North; he constantly mocks the Southern society for its “ignorance and bigotry”. However, he comments on the “progressive ideas and beliefs” of the people in the North. Bert Cates breaking...

  26. Reflection on Literature and Community

    most people know is the environment around them. They pick up habits from their family, friends, and neighbors. They begin to talk like them using dialect and slang inherent to their region. Also, it is not uncommon for people to write about a fictional community that is based from their own community...

  27. china

    encompass a number of regional varieties called dialects by Chinese scholars. The Chinese view dialects differently from western people. In the West, dialects are considered mutually intelligible varieties of a common language, whereas in China, dialects are not all mutually intelligible. (Liu, 2010,...

  28. FROM FIST CONTACT TO THE CIVIL WAR

    fight for emancipation. Owners of slave plantations and those working with freed African American workers intentionally shunned the use of African dialects among their slaves and workers. In order to ensure this, they mixed them up in order to ensure the only medium of communication was English. Although...

  29. the factors to influence the idiom differences between Chinese and English

    historical culture, religious beliefs and thinking patterns and values. There is not one single Chinese language, but many different versions or dialects including Wu, Cantonese and Taiwanese. Northern Chinese, also known as Mandarin, is the mother tongue of about 70% of Chinese speakers and is the...

  30. South african history

    Guide & Travel/Holidays/Cities http://www.infoplease.com/country/south-africa.html#ixzz3Y2SYgnhI Geography South Africa, on the continent's southern tip, is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and by the Indian Ocean on the south and east. Its neighbors are Namibia in the northwest, Zimbabwe...

  31. Flannery O'Connor

    associated with stories of violence. She was sometimes referred to as a “Southern Gothic” writer because of her fascination with grotesque incidents and odd complex characters. This use of grotesque humor and the rural southern dialect of her characters were common elements in her short stories. These dark...

  32. Australian English

    underworld sense of ‘booty’) as the collection of belongings of a bush traveller, and swagman as their bearer; fossick—perhaps a variant of the midland and southern English fussock (to bustle about)—meaning ‘to search for gold’, and then ‘to rummage around for anything’; the outback and the never-never to describe...

  33. Theory of Knowledge

    language, and within each language, there are different dialects so it is difficult to translate the meaning of one sentence of one language to another language (60). For example, there is a fruit called longan fruit that is typically grown in southern China. However, in Mandarin, the Chinese call it “long...

  34. Culture Analysis of Italy

    customs, religion, and business practices. These differences can create problems in intentional business. Introduction Italy is located in southern Europe and is shaped like a high heeled boot. The land area is 301,245 sq. km which inhabits 60 million people. Life expectancy in Italy is 79 years...

  35. The Emancipation from Man in the Color Purple

    her inability to write with effortless fluency.' Other's argue Walker has purposely rebelled against the rich and difficult prose accustomed with southern writers, such as the highly credited William Faulkner. Walker has harvested this rebellion in an endeavour to draw forth the racial issue of educational...

  36. The Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

    when mispronunciation and misspeaking are part of my dialect, to own the bad blood. What I come from has made me who I am." Many of us are guilty of much of what Ray writes about. How many southern have been made fun of or ridiculed for their dialect or lack of education? At some point in life, you have...

  37. Sociology - Understanding the Apartheid

    Sociology I Final Examination Dr. Wincelowicz Winter 2008/2009 Bruce Toole February 22, 2009 Question # 5 _“Explain apartheid, use concepts from functionalism, conflict theory and interactionalism in your response and provide a perspective on how it shaped South Africa in the last 50 years.”_...

  38. The Persian Empire

    those who had a significant on Canaan before the Hebrew language came into existence. Those languages left their mark on one hand, and the Southern Semitic dialects on the other, have also given rise to many loanwords in Biblical Hebrew. Bibliography Allen, Lindsay (2005). The Persian Empire ...

  39. Image Shema

    than her inability to say what she wanted to say. Linguistic anthropologists teach us that people use an enormous variety of languages and their dialects to express their ideas. Some languages, nevertheless, have developed a precise vocabulary to talk about things important to their culture. People...

  40. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Wind” and “To Kill a Mockingbird”. It is also notable for being among the first novels to be entirely written in vernacular English, in this case, the dialect of the American Deep South. Written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens(better known by his pen name, Mark Twain) is a direct sequel to another of Twain’s...

  41. hjvbh

    stated, "I am not nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races." A Careful examination of this quote and the circumstances surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation reveals that Lincoln was more concerned about destroying the South...

  42. Culture Regions

    of the Bantu language group. Divisions may also be made between French Africa and the rest of Africa, in particular the former British colonies of southern and East Africa. Another cultural fault-line is that between those Africans living traditional lifestyles and those who are essentially modern. The...

  43. A Rose for Emily

    considered by many to be the progenitor of a sub-genre, the Southern gothic. The Southern gothic style combines the elements of classic Gothicism with particular Southern archetypes (the reclusive spinster, for example) and puts them in a Southern milieu. Faulkner's novels and stories about the South include...

  44. Windows and Linux: Differences Between Memory Management

    utilize a qualified micro-piece expectation with a preemptive scheduler, being concentrated on an interruptible string execution. A utility of the same dialect is normally close to the extent that the certified similarity goes. That distinction in outline reasoning shows up all around. In memory administration...

  45. The Relation Between Linguistics and Culture

    the relation between culture and linguistics is, from my point of view, multi-facets. For one thing, the discrepancy of culture between the southern part and the northern part of China helped to foster the prevalence of Chinese tradition which generate a Chinese cultural atmosphere for language...

  46. Preservation

    12.6 million and 10.9 million, respectively (see table 6, Appendix). In the early 1990s, growth was the most dramatic in the cities of central and southern India. About twenty cities in those two regions experienced a growth rate of more than 100 percent between 1981 and 1991. Areas subject to an influx...

  47. How a Dialect Coach in Los Angeles Can Help Your Business Grow

    How a Dialect Coach in Los Angeles Can Help Your Business Grow Thanks to the internet, the world has become a lot smaller. Instead of focusing on doing business with clients in the same town or even the same state, it is now possible to have customers or business partners from across the country or...

  48. My Intro

    prior year and for the present one. The speech Faulkner delivered was not immediately intelligible to his listeners, both because of Faulkner’s southern dialect and because the microphone was too distant from his mouth, but when it was printed in newspapers the following day, it was immediately hailed...

  49. Country of Analysis: Vietnam

    from one hundred eggs carried in a pouch by Au Co; and all the sons were handsome and stalwart. They soon established a nation that stretched from southern China to northern Indonesia. However, the King and the Princess became convinced that their different origins would ultimately make them unhappy,...

  50. Republic of Indonesia Culture

    Austronesian peoples, the ancestors of the Malayo-Polynesian speaking peoples, are thought to have begun migration, possibly from South China and/or Southern Taiwan, and to have spread out across the islands of the Philippines, Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. They encountered previous Melanesian...

  51. Chn Essay

    feel revitalized and excited. On our first day, we were oriented to the place and the staff. With the surge of patients coming in for speculum examination, we hurriedly grabbed the chance to perform and an opportunity for me to experience. I first observed how my classmates handle equipments and performing...

  52. Vietnam and America

    including good luck charms, origami fish, cactus branches, etc. At Tết every house is usually decorated by hoa mai – Ochna integerrima (in the central and southern parts of Vietnam) or hoa đào – peach flower (in the northern part of Vietnam) or hoa ban (in mountain areas). In the north, some people (especially...

  53. Acf I –Valuation

    assumptions as you go, and you should state these clearly in the write-up at the time they are applied. The total possible points for this examination are 100, and the breakdown of these points among each of the questions is clearly listed on the next page. There are a total of six questions. ...

  54. Tagalog help

    in the southern part of Luzon, the largest Philippine island. More than one third of this population lives in the metropolitan area of Manila, the Philippine capital. Tagalog is also spoken as a second or third language by almost the total population of the Philippines. Several dialects of Tagalog...

  55. Chinese Dynasties: Culture vs. Religion

    arts were developed. Foot binding became a fashion to distinguish the Southern Chinese from the Northern Chinese women. The Northern Chinese women were considered ‘barbarian’ and were athletic, so to differentiate themselves, Southern Chinese women bound their feet so that they could not do much besides...

  56. To Kill a Mocking Bird 18

    totin’ water for her.” Despite of this he was charged with rape. Mr Link Deas said he was a very good worker. He talked with the Southern colloquialisms and dialect “She’d call me in, suh. Seemed like every time I passed by yonder she’d have some little somethin’ for me to do- choppin’ kindlin’, totin’...

  57. Ottawa and Its Significance

    I chose this tribe was because it was a tribe I found interesting and was closer to home, in reference to geographic location. This tribe lives in southern Ontario and Michigan, speaks English, and was traders. This tribe is known for being original people of today’s everyday life and their beliefs, the...

  58. The Greeks

    and confined ethnic Greeks almost entirely into the borders of the modern Greek state and Cyprus. Other ethnic Greek populations can be found from Southern Italy to the Caucasus and in diaspora communities in a number of other countries. Today, the vast majority of Greeks are at least nominally adherents...

  59. People Group

    Scheduled tribe.[1] Other names and spellings include Kathkari, Kathodi and Kathodia.[2][3][4] They are bilingual, speaking the Katkari language, a dialect of the Marathi language with each other and speaking Marathi with the Marathi speakers who are a majority in the populance where they live.[5][nb 1]...

  60. Ancient Greek - The Early Archaic Period

    the powerful belief in Dorianism as a linguistic and religious concept. Thucydides casually but significantly mentions soldiers speaking the “Doric dialect” in a narrative about ordinary military matters in the year 426: this is a surprisingly abstract way of looking at the subdivisions of the Greeks,...