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    Southern American English

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    of what it means to have a Southern accent‚ your mind goes straight to the stereotypical renditions you have heard from media portrayals of the South. Probably‚ the examples you think of are highly exaggerated‚ like Scarlett O’Hara’s Deep South‚ r-less rendition of a Southerner exclaiming Well ah nevah! (Bailey 11) or like those in “Gone with the Wind” or “Dukes of Hazzard County‚” both of which reinforce the negatively stigmatized‚ stereotypical Southern accent (Lippi-Green 218). Southern American

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    Tongues is a 1988 documentary made to illustrate some of the dialects of American English. It features commentaries from several groups of professionals‚ such as sociolinguists Roger Shuy and Walt Wolfram‚ columnists Mike Harden and Molly Ivins‚ therapist Dennis Becker and historian A.C. Greene. The most prominent commentators are Walt Wolfram and Molly Ivins‚ who addressed sociolinguistic attitudes and stereotypes about American dialects. Below are the biographical notes of some of the commentators:

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    Linguistic Profiling

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    linguistic profiling has on people‚ specifically on the people with an “undesirable accent or dialect” (2003‚ p.155). Much like racial profiling and its negative effects on people of color‚ linguistic profiling is the practice of imposing certain social characteristics on people who speak with a particular accent or dialect. As with racial profiling‚ linguistic profiling places certain stigmas on accents or dialects. Baugh begins by discussing discriminatory linguistic profiling‚ and the approval

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    North American English Dialects NORTH AMERICAN ACCENTS OF ENGLISH Major dialect groups: General American: Central Eastern Midland Northern Western Northeastern: New York City New England Southern: Inland Lower Canadian: General Canadian Maritime Newfoundland G4 Proseminar Dialectology http://www.ifla.uni-stuttgart.de/~jilka/ North American English Dialects THE SOUTH • the historical South consists of two main dialectal areas: – Coastal or Lower Southern (southern

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    New York dialect is a dialect of the English Language that is spoken by many people in New York City and much of its surrounding metropolitan area. (including the 5 boroughs‚ Long Island‚ Westchester County‚ the lower Hudson Valley & surrounding parts of Connecticut & New Jersey). Also It is one of the most recognizable dialects within American English . The variation within the same accent The variations of the New York accent are a result of the layering of ethnic speech from the waves

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    spoken language

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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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    varied from over the past 200 years. The Australian accent was developed so the first generation could identify themselves as Australians. During the late 19th century‚ attitudes towards the Australian accent became negative and were in favour of British English. However‚ one hundred years later‚ opinions changed and the Australian accent was once again seen as a part of the national identity of Australia. The creation of the Australian accent emanated from the need of the first generation Australians

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    learod

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    Six O’Clock News – Tom Leonard this is thi six a clock news thi man said n thi reason a talk wia BBC accent iz coz yi widny wahnt mi ti talk aboot thi trooth wia voice lik wanna yoo scruff. if a toktaboot thi trooth lik wanna yoo scruff yi widny thingk it wuz troo. jist wanna yoo scruff tokn. thirza right way ti spell ana right way to tok it. this is me tokn yir right way a spellin. this is ma trooth. yooz doant no thi trooth yirsellz cawz yi canny talk right.

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    Accents Throughout this controlled assessment‚ I have noticed that I use different accents in different context. When I speak to my family and friends‚ I change my accent when having a conversation with them in English. Which is made apparent when I pronounce: “what else did you have just pizza and nothing else?” in a different accent on transcript 2. This is because I am of Bangladeshi ethnicity which has influenced the way I pronounce words. I may purposely speak in a Bangladeshi accent if I am

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    Thinking Style

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    Introduction One’s identities can be various. I am a girl who is 19 years old‚ a Hong Kong people‚ a daughter‚ a university student. We have so many different identities. Some of it will change‚ some of it is stable and unchanging. So‚ before the explanation of the relationships between language and identity‚ the definition of identity have to be define first. According to Abercrombie (2000)‚ ” this is the sense of self‚ of personhood‚ of what kind of person one is. Identities always involve

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