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    Individual dialects cover all across the world there differences can be heard from one country to next or even at some points throughout the same city. A dialect is the way in which a person speaks. Any language heard today can be traced back to the previous settlers of that surrounding area and often times over the decades have merged with other dialects forming different speech patterns. A person’s dialect forms around those he is surrounded by‚ and may change through the course of their life

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    experiences travel — he was enthusiastic. "When I travel‚" he said‚ "I always ask myself‚ what do I expect to hear that tells me that I’m not just anyplace?" According to Professor Labov‚ New York City is a natural departure point. The broadest variety of dialects is found on the Eastern Seaboard. "These are the sites of the earliest settlements‚ with the greatest

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    with Jamestown‚ Virginia‚ in 1607) and New England (where the Mayflower landed the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620). * the original bridgeheads via urban hearths like Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ Richmond‚ Virginia‚ and then Charleston‚ South Carolina‚ such accents got rooted in these regions‚ in accordance with Mufwene’s "Founder Principle" * Eastern New England has continued this tradition largely to the present day: with important cultural centers and economic prosperity through trade‚ whaling‚ and later

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    with: Accent Phonological Characteristics of General American English Accent – There is no discernible accent from the three characters in the commercial in the beginning. They are utilizing the standard newscaster accent that is widely accepted as the television standard of speech. Intended effect – enhances the effect of the business office setting and dress code of all three characters as professional and efficient. Phonological characteristics of Mid Atlantic/Philadelphia Accent – “How

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    is about the poet presenting himself as a BBC broadcaster with a Glaswegian accent. The poets point is to say that just because someone has regional accent and not a RP accent does

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    dialectology‚ and the sociological perspective‚ or modern dialectology. Dialectology as such is the study of dialects of a language with a focus on their distribution (regional and/or social) and characteristic linguistic features. modern dialectology or sociolinguistics is used generally for the study of the relationship between language and society. Traditional and modern dialectology study dialects with a difference in scientific focus: Traditional Dialectology | Modern Dialectology | Since 19th

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    Abstract The paper will present why the advertisement is presented with different Arabic dialects. And how can advertisement Mirror Society. Dialects in Advertising and Advertisement Mirror Society A regional or social variety of language distinguished by pronunciation‚ grammar‚ or vocabulary‚ especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists or we can say it’s a form of a language spoken in a particular

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    México and Puerto Rico is basically the same but the difference is the accents and expressions.in the essay‚ I will focus in the history and contribution of the Spanish in Puerto Rican and Mexican society. For many people who don’t know much about the history they can get inform about the culture of the Puerto Rico and Mexico people. It will provide an ethnic background by giving us the opportunity to explores the regional dialect accent comparison. Puerto Rican Spanish also called (Espanol Puertorriqueno)

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    Function word Function words (or grammatical words or synsemantic words or structure-class words) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning‚ but instead serve to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence‚ or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker. They signal the structural relationships that words have to one another and are the glue that holds sentences together. Thus‚ they serve as important elements to the structures of sentences. [1] Consider

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    Angela's Ashes Extract

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    of the book is simple‚ and the author recalls the memories of his youth with ease. The story mixes humor with the reality of poverty and depression. With McCourt’s dialogue‚ he effortlessly speaks with an “innocent eye”… Dialogue‚ innocent eye‚ dialect‚ use of quotations‚ comic relief. Intro here! The use of dialogue throughout Angela’s Ashes is well-chosen. When McCourt is in his younger years he uses a language that a five year old would use and so on throughout his life. His vocabulary is not

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