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    Patidarangia Dialect

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    SYNOPSIS The problem to be investigated: The dialect of Palashbari (Palashbaria) and Pati Darrang (Patidarrangia) : A comparative study. Introduction: Because of some political‚ social‚ cultural and geographical causes‚ if a particular area with certain language is not communicated in a regular basis‚ then the language of that area forms regional dialects. The Assamese language which is used and spread in a large area of both the two banks of the Brahmaputra valley also gives birth to various

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    Social Dialects

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    Social dialects Rothstain and S.Rothstain (2009)‚ they difined dialect a an aspect of language that refers to variation in pronunciation‚ words and‚ grammar of a specific language and as a part of every language‚ resulting from geographic‚ occupational and social differences. Read(1986)‚ said that dialect can be divided into social and regional varieties. Regional dialects are difened geographically; social dialect are difined by socioeconomic and sociocultural characteristics

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    Mcguinness Dialect

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    deep stereotypes as characters allows for their actions to be predictable. However when one reads through the play‚ one cannot help but recognize and appreciate the true fourth character‚ which is the language. The choice of having three English-dialects helps to create at atmosphere that is both familiar for the audience and comical from the start. Through the use of dark humor McGuinness is able take a dire situation and bring light to it. The men themselves use language as a means to bring light

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    Language and Dialect

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    1528-3542/07/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.1.131 Toward a Dialect Theory: Cultural Differences in the Expression and Recognition of Posed Facial Expressions Hillary Anger Elfenbein University of California‚ Berkeley Martin Beaupre ´ University of Quebec at Montreal Manon Levesque ´ Omar Bongo University Ursula Hess University of Quebec at Montreal Two studies provided direct support for a recently proposed dialect theory of communicating emotion‚ positing that expressive displays

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    Regional Social Dialects

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    Week 4 Lecture Regional & Social Dialects WHAT CAN YOU TELL ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE SPEAKERS? Notes on Examples  Reasonable (even accurate) guesses about speaker’s various characteristics e.g. socio-economic or educational background esp. for English accents in Britain • With distinctive regional accent  origin even from short utterance Holmes (2008) p. 127 3 Characteristics of Speech • Remember? No two people speak the same! – ∞ sources of variation e

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    AN ANALYSIS OF COCKNEY ACCENT AS BEING ACCUSED OF A WORKING CLASS ACCENT OF LONDONERS by Atik Choirun Nisa A320120201 Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta atiknissa@gmail.com ABSTRACT This research is intended to explain why the Cockney accent is considered as a working class accent in London. The type of the study is descriptive qualitative. There are three techniques of collecting data‚ namely: observation‚ interview‚ and analyzing document. Methods of analyzing data are discussion‚ display data

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    centuries‚ language‚ alone‚ has weakened in terms of being a mere indication of “ethnicity” (Rakic‚ Steffens‚ & Mummendey‚ 2011‚ pg. 18). In the study‚ “Blinded by the Accent! The Minor Role of Looks in Ethic Categorization”‚ researchers Tamara Rakic‚ Melanie C. Steffens‚ and Amelie Mummendey‚ examined other factors‚ such as “looks” and “accents”‚ as possible indicators of social categorization. Being that the study was produced in Germany‚ researchers used‚ through a series of pretests‚ a set of fluent

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    Major Accents in the Uk.

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    MAJOR ACCENTS IN THE UK. GENERAL AMERICAN AS THE AMERICAN ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION STANDARD Points for discussion: Major accents in the UK. 1. RP/BBC English as the British national standard of pronunciation: 1) Socio-historical survey of RP/BBC English. 2) Phonological and phonetic dimensions of RP/BBC English. 2. Cockney as an example of a broad accent of English. 3. Estuary English. 4. Chief differences between RP and regional accents of British

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    Dialect Continuum

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    A dialect continuum is a range of dialects spoken across a large geographical area‚ differing only slightly between areas that are geographically close to each other‚ and gradually decreasing in mutual intelligibility as the distances become greater. Dialects separated by great geographical distances may not be mutually comprehensible. According to the Ausbausprache - Abstandsprache - Dachsprache paradigm‚ these dialects can be considered Abstandsprachen (i.e.‚ as stand-alone languages). However

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    Dialect Variation

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    Dialect Variation in Tamil Tamil is one of the ancient languages of the world with records inthe language dating back over two millennia. Its origins are notprecisely known‚ but it developed and flourished in India as a language with a rich literature. With an estimated 30‚000inscriptions‚ Tamil has the largest number of inscriptions in South Asia. Tamil belongs to the southern branch of the Dravidian languages‚a family of around twenty-six languages native to the Indian subcontinent. It is

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