Southern American English

Mona Alsolami Do You Speak America? Robert MacNeil took us on a very long and existing journey about the linguistic diversity in the United States. His aim through this journey is to explore English language and how people use it and what reasons affected the language. We all know that the formal spoken language in the United States is English language, but after watching this documentary our idea has changed. Thorough MacNeil’s journey, it is appeared that the situation is different and not all American people speak the same version of English or the same dialect or accent. There are many dialects spoken over the united states such as African American English and Chicano English and so on. Also, there are narly two million people in America…

History of the Southern United States Dialect Southern American English, more commonly known as the Southern drawl or the Southern accent, is one of the most immediately recognizable of the United States’ many dialects. The dialect can bring many different connotations to mind depending on the preconceptions of the hearer. Those with positive ideas of the South may conjure up images of hard-working, hospitable, family oriented people, whereas others may prejudge anyone who uses the common…

Massachusetts were more team sports like baseball and football. “Ball games were not common in the southern colonies…. A combination of order and action, reason and emotion, individually and collective effort which was characteristic of Puritan culture.” Gambling and drinking games were disliked in Massachusetts because they were seen as sinful. These games/ sports were even banned in homes. These laws were so strict that people were painfully punished “All persons whatsoever that have cards,…

Although both the Chesapeake and New England regions were settled by the white English, by 1700 both evolved into distinct societies due to economic,…

While North America was settled in the majority by Englishmen of the same nationality, by the time of the 1700s, the New England and Chesapeake regions developed adversely from one another. England sent over numerous groups to these two regions. From the start, New England and the Chesapeake had different values and identities. These differences originated from the reasons that they decided to come to the New World in the first place, and where on the coast they were. This affected the colonies…

Harper Lee takes pace in a courtroom where a white lawyer, Atticus, is defending an innocent African-American man who was charged of rape. Atticus makes a speech to the jury and audience about how race has been an issue for our country for generations, and how if African-American men are only created equal in one place, let it be the courtroom. In "I Have a Dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. he discusses the current and past issues facing the country about racial…

I was born and raised in Southern California and lived in the same town up until I graduated high school. My ancestors are from England and Norway, but on my mother’s side, my great-grandmother was Native American. Both my parents grew up in Southern California and, generally, lived in the same area for most of their lives. Even though my mother was raised in Long Beach, she pronounces certain words strange, such as wash like worsh. Her grandmother came from Minnesota, and I believe that is how…

Outline 1-Intoduction: A: African American Vernacular English definition. B: Origins. C: Societies’ opinion. 2-Body Paragraph 1: A: Some sided with 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…

in his failure to defend the Negro victim, eventually hunted down while scaling the wall in quest of freedom, the innocent victim, and Arthur Boo, who is endowed with tender human emotions and compassion, but is nearly buried alive in the Radley House, which is a veritable sepulcher, simple because his father loved to wallow in the vanity fair, and the suffering Finch children, they all intensify the sense of waste involved in the eternal conflict” (Bloom 57). Harper Lee ensured her novel had…

educate African American students, Oakland California 's Unified School District Board unanimously passed a resolution declaring African American English (AAE) a language in its own right. The board (1996) issued a statement which delineated the resolution and how to move forward stating that “Be it further resolved that the Superintendent in conjunction with her staff shall immediately devise and implement the best possible academic program for imparting instruction to African American…