Dialect

Would you be content with knowing that your past elementary or high teacher had a low level of education for early childhood teaching? The term, word gap, first discovered in the 1995 Hart and Risley study argued that lower socioeconomic status (SES) children are exposed to 30 million fewer words in comparison to children in affluent households. Implications of the study primed the development of education policies that directly shape educational opportunities of language minority students…

Why Huckleberry Finn should be read in Schools The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a fictitious novel written by Mark Twain. The novel is about a young boy named Huckleberry Finn who runs away from his adoptive home with a slave named Jim and travels with him down the Mississippi River. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes place during the mid 1800’s and describes the amazing journey Huck and Jim have while searching for freedom from the society around them. This novel should be read in…

leading people or places and sovereignty as well to his audience. This speech of Senator Beveridge makes a strong appeal to logos, in that he uses inductive and deductive reasoning. He utilizes rhetorical devices such as anaphora, connotation, pathos, dialect and simile to clearly deliver the message that the…

“Baker’s Bluejay Yarn” Define the following: 1) Gratification: the state of being gratified; great satisfaction (Dictionary.com). 2) Rudiments: the elements or first principles of a subject, or, a mere beginning, first slight appearance, or undeveloped or imperfect form of something (Dictionary.com). 3) Absurdity: the quality or state of being ridiculous or wildly unreasonable (Dictionary.com). Study Questions 1. Who is the narrator of the story? The narrator of the story is Jim Baker.…

Over the traditional four years of high school, I attended three private high schools: a coed, Baptist day school with about 700 students; an all girls non-denominational boarding school with about 70 students; and an all girls day school with about 400 students. The school I attended with the starkest contrast to the school described by Mary Bucholtz was the all girls day school, so I will focus on that school for my response. One point of interest worth divulging is that Bucholtz’s study…

Features of British Isles speech have been lost and preserved in white and African American dialects, as well as some independent innovations: “These independent innovations have been facilitated by the relatively small amount of social contact between African Americans and whites in many parts of the USA” (Trudgill 52-53). By losing social contact…

Miss Rachel Haverford's unambiguous southern dialect is evident when she tells Dill, “Do-o-o Jee-sus, Dill Harris! Gamblin’ by my fishpool? I’ll strip-poker you, sir!” The diction Miss Rachel Haverford uses is similar to most of the characters that appear in To Kill A Mockingbird, as the characters live in the south, in a small town known as Maycomb. Jem and Scout both similar dialects since they both grew up in the south. When Jem tells Scout, “‘d ya see him, Scout…

by Mark Peters Critical Analysis The following essay being summarized and analyzed “He Said, Scheme Said” by Mark Peters was originally published in the Boston Globe on January 31, 2016. Peters has a PhD in English and is a member of the American Dialect Society. This essay is a piece that explores the English language, specifically the need for a gender-neutral singular pronoun. I will examine whether the text is balanced, examples of various perspectives the author adopts, and main questions…

During this week I saw an episode of The life of the Birds presented by David Attenborough in which he showed the way which some birds have for catching the attention of a possible couple. Amongst all of them, he showed the lyrebird which seems to have more than 300 different sounds for that, and amongst those sounds there was one that sounded like the alarm of a car and other that sounded like a pneumatic drill, those which are utilized to break streets, all that while deployed the feathers of…

beginning and ending sounds of his words was easily understood. There were no articulation errors that I noticed throughout his speech. I did notice some dialect that possibly he was using to relate to the younger college generation. The dialect was not so pronounced that it made the understanding difficult. Even with using some of the dialect it did not affect the speech. Alex did have good fluency and his delivery would be characterized as smooth and not choppy. His speech was…