Dialect

AAVE B: AAVE is a rule-governed and systematic language. C: Examples that serve as proof. 3-Body Paragraph 2: A: AAVE’s effect on its speakers. B: AAVE speakers face difficulties in professional settings. C: AAVE speakers manage to switch from dialect to another in order to blend in. 4-Body Paragraph 3: A: Linguists suggest the use of AAVE in class. B: The Oakland school board attempts to use AAVE to improve SE. C: Discouraging attitudes prove to be obstructing the educational…

“Language is the capacity to gain and utilize complex frameworks of correspondence, especially the human capacity to do as such, and a language is a particular case of such a framework. The logical investigation of language is called linguistics” Estimating the quantity of languages in the world vary between 5,000 and 7,000. Common languages are talked or marked, however any language can be encoded into auxiliary media utilizing sound-related, visual, or material jolts. For instance, in…

variety of social, economic, and cultural backgrounds?” (20) And “Should the school try to uphold language variety, or to modify it, or to eradicate it?” (20). While for academic writing purposes students should be expected to use standard American dialect. It is important to respect the diversity, and it’s also important to understand that learning a language other than your own language is very hard. Allowing students to use or speak their own language takes off a lot of pressure on…

that proper English is not necessary correct. The author goes on to provide good examples of different rules governing dialects and proper English. For example, he explains that different dialects are rule driven just like proper English. The author is very effective…

America has been considered a melting pot for multiple diverse people and cultures. In the past, settlers who traveled to and across the United States left their mark on various regions as they brought their accents, such as African languages molding dialects of the South and how French and English is intermingled by Cajuns in Louisiana. However, the documentary demonstrates and highlights how people tend to create stereotypes for people who do not speak the same way they do and how people may…

researched the benefits, usages, and learning’s of codeswitching from African American Vernacular English to Standard English in a classroom. Codeswitching is the use of more than one language or dialect in a single stretch of discourse, it may occur in two separate clauses, or when speakers switch dialects in the same clause. I have delved through many different journals, books, and articles to shuffle through the opinions of different researchers. These pieces of scholarly writing discuss the…

These will all be in Standard Australian English dialect and will use a formal register as they are using the language of instruction to convey information to students they need to learn (Emmitt et. al., 2010). By using the Australian Curriculum for English teachers can create and use different lesson…

author uses multicultural dialect to help explain forms of regional linguistics, rhetorical questions in order to aid the reader in identifying certain issues, and personification as a way of connecting technology and the English language; he uses these rhetorical choices throughout his study to express his thoughts thoroughly. MacNeil effectively…

Linguist Max Weinreich defines a language as, “a dialect with an army and a navy.” In James Baldwin’s essay, “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” he argues that black English is a separate language from English. The author’s reasonings date back to the days of slavery when blacks, who spoke different languages, were all piled together and forced to find a way to communicate, thus the formation of black English. Baldwin begins his piece by attempting to define a language in…

In Wuthering Heights, some of the characters speak exclusively in the local dialect (the case of Joseph), other use it only to a certain extent and in certain situations (Mr Earnshaw, Hindley, Nelly), while there are other characters whose speech develops from a West Yorkshire dialect to Standard English when their social status changes (the case of Heathcliff and Hareton). Emily Brontë “gives her characters distinctive ways of speaking, according to their station in life and according to…