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    have your own ‘idiolect’‚ the way you speak is actually more determined by other people than by yourself.’ How has you idiolect been affected? Everyone’s idiolect is influenced by many factors throughout their life‚ school‚ media‚ peers and many more. An idiolect is the way one speaks the vocabulary they use; the accent they have‚ the dialect they adopted. An idiolect is for one individual‚ it is unique‚ and no two people in the world have the exact same idiolect. My idiolect began to be affected

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    Idiolect Every person has a unique dialect of English know as an idiolect. This idiolect is influenced by geography‚ age‚ social class; the list goes on and on. My own idiolect reminds me of the well-known saying “Monkey see‚ Monkey do”. My speaking style is influenced by numerous factors including my family history and environment. My idiolect is heavily influenced by my family history and the places that they have lived. I was born and raised in Louisville‚ but still have traces of a more “deep

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    They each have a specific meaning to a certain area in my life. They all come to form a dialect which is specific to me and only me known as Idiolect. Idiolect is not a language of idiots‚ rather the language pertaining to an individual. All people have their own dialects that are unique to them derived from various areas of life. Personally‚ my idiolect has been influenced by the presence in sports‚ experience in work‚ and relationships in my family. Teammates regardless of the sport or age all

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    The student’s data Transcript between my friend (S) and me (E) E: uhhm (3) well (1) I’m looking *forward+ (filler – first of many – um‚well‚ like!) S: *what (.) maybe+ (2) don’t turn away when you’re talking (2) E: Whaju-mean? S: (1) well (.) yeah ‘cause it won’t pick up your voice (.) *so easily+ E: *oh OK (.)+ yeah (2) well it’s just hard to (3) um (.) I’m just gonna put thee (.) um (.) piece of paper over it (write about ‘thee’ – filler) S: Oh I wouldn’t do that (.) cause it

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    The way people speak can be influenced by a multitude of factors; be it the environment they grew up in or the people they socialise with. The media‚ education‚ class system‚ location of birth and where I live have directly influenced my personal idiolect. I was born in Leicester. People in Leicester have a very distinct accent and dialect and during my short period there‚ I collected many of these features as my own. Ends of sentences would be punctuated with “luv” or “duck” and “good food!” became

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    utmost dominant in the means of varying my idiolect is social networking. Abbreviations like “LOL” and “ROFL” appear to be making their way into everyday teenager dialects around the world including mine. I have noticed that I currently use “LOL” often to let others recognise when I find something humorous. What I perceive from this is that I only use this abbreviation around my friends primarily because of the formal and informal parting of my idiolect between my friends and people like my teachers

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    shape language. Work in this area has spawned a number of fascinating concepts and terms. There is not space here to look at sociolinguistics in depth‚ but the following could well help us in studying the relationship between these two characters: 1. Idiolect. Language particular to an individual (formed by where they live‚ education‚ family‚ class etc.) 2. Sociolect. Language of a particular social group. 3. Accommodation theory. The linguist Howard Giles (Language: Contexts and Consequences‚ 1991)

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    Spoken Language Study Lord Sugar’s idiolect stands out in this transcript because it’s completely different to the candidates. His language features are very informal which is surprising considering they are in a boardroom and you would expect everyone to be professional‚ especially Lord Sugar‚ as he is the boss. Alan’s informality is shown with his cockney accent and the fact he uses elision and slang in his dialect‚ such as “dunno”‚ “talkin” and “should’a”. This shows that is so assured with

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    that he is refusing to give away too much evidence and go to court when the detective says “…even after the rollers and the ambo got here… you were still here waiting ‘cause you got something to tell me‚ right?” In this quote the detective also uses idiolect ‘rollers’ for ‘Police vehicles’ and ‘ambo’ for ‘ambulance’‚ the witness replies with a shock “I ain’t going no court.” The witness uses a variety of dialect‚ he may use dialect because he uses it in his everyday vocabulary or because he was bought

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    adapted my idiolect differently to my friends‚ parents‚ teachers and strangers; but does that make me fake or vulgar? In Addition‚ our Language is an essential part of our lives and as the population increases it has become more important to be able to communicate in various ways. Therefore‚ when we do communicate we tend to register our linguistic features to suit our audience from which our audience may make a judgment about our personality. Furthermore‚ I will be discussing my idiolect‚ how it

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