Dialect

When we improve on our technology, we create, group, or form new ways of language and speaking. Most of the time, we are shortening or condensing our language to make it much easier to speak. We make acronyms in our normal everyday conversation as quick remarks. We take the power and emotion from the original phrase and make it meaningless. We take the positives, like LOL, or the negatives, like WTF, and make them lack any connotation, so that they are just there to fill up space in our text box…

powerful spoken word essay given at TEDSalon NY2014. The “tri-tongued orator” explains that speaking three English dialects at home, school, and friends does not make her any less articulate or educated. She gives a voice explaining the complicated history and present-day identity that each language represents. Using emotional and logical tactics, she reminds the audience that the many dialects of English are as valid as the more standardized English used by the majority of the American…

You find yourself struggling to understand the English being used by your new classmate. Have you ever wondered why people speak English differently, and who has established what is correct or incorrect? In David F. Wallace’s “Authority and American Usage (2001)” published in Harper’s Magazine, he is able to explore the answers behind these issues and uncover the “Usage Wars”. Author David F. Wallace loosely reviews Bryan A. Garner’s A Dictionary of Modern American Usage, while addressing…

situation is called a dialect. A “Dialect” is any form of a language that is odd to a specific group or region. According to James M. Rubenstein, there are a total of three dialect regions, and they are New England, Southeastern, and Midlands. There are also major dialects in the United States by itself. These dialects are called the North, Southern, Midlands, and the west. Dialects are based on spelling, vocabulary, and the way individuals pronounce the words. An example of a dialect would be…

day attribute. Having the understanding of different dialects of English such as American English, Canadian English and Australian English is a very impressive skill, it allows people from different societies to be able to interact in a way that they feel comfortable with each other. Although the English language has been firm, the recent emerges of different societies has resulted in the English language to break down into different dialects to enable better communication and understanding.…

curious about the social aspects involved in language. Natalie Schilling-Este’s chapter about dialect variation in addition to the dialect perception experiment provided insight to some of these curiosities. After reflecting upon the reading and experiment, the topics that stood out to me most were factors that contribute to language change, the social implications of dialect, and the perception of dialects from Dominican students. In Schilling-Este’s chapter, she emphasizes many factors that…

The Language Used Immigrants are a well known topic, but more than often immigrants are laughed at. An immigrant is a person that comes to live in a new place that is foreign to them. Immigration started way before 1965 and it still happens to this day, at first there was not many people coming to America but then it sky rocketed. Tan learns from her mother's English that people pretend to not understand by not listening with her accent, it is her second internal language and passion. People…

language. Various dialects of English reflect cultural, racial and socioeconomic aspects of these groups (“What Privilege”) Standard English has often been defined as the correct form of the English language. This is emphasized everywhere from public schools to mass media. In the United States it is viewed as the default dialect, providing a linguistic common ground for all speakers. Despite this Standard English is not grammatically or expressively superior to any other English dialect. Today,…

If I were about to granted another chance to rewrite my memoir, I would definitely do so. Down here would be my rewritten version of my memoir, which was corrected directly from my original one. There was an old saying: “There are no two identical leaves in the world," but I asked myself: "Why so? What were their differences? Was it color, size, or shape? Despite their differences, I believed each of them had own life, in which was different from others because of the effect of environment. For…

article “Students’ Right to Their Own Language” provides an argument regarding a resolution arrived at by the Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee (CCCC) concerning students’ dialects. From the article, this became an issue due to an influx of students with foreign dialects in American schools. Thus, the significant argument in the article regarded whether students should uphold language variety, modify or eradicate it altogether. Some scholars assume the existence of…