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    “Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.” (Brown‚ 1989) The Italian American dialect prevalent in popular culture like movies and television shows is born of the shifts that occurred in the Italian language from the early days of immigration from Italy to the Americas. Settling by and large in the upper eastern section of the the United States‚ enclaves formed in most large cities‚ often referred to as Little Italy. The immigrants learned

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    identity a dialect. I was born in the South to a southern family with southern values and a distinct southern accent. In my elementary years I attended schools made up of a majority of

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    from different regions of the United States and their opinion on other dialects correctness and pleasantness. To support the research‚ Preston uses multiple examples of quantitative data. I will examine the main theme portrayed by the author‚ the organization‚ connections between ideas‚ and transitions within the text as well as the style‚ voice‚ and audience of this essay. The essay begins as Preston states that some dialects of the same language are not as correct or pleasant as others. Next‚ Preston

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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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    variety: This is a general term that may be used at a number of levels. So‚ we can also use the term to distinguish between two varieties of English‚ such as New York City English vs. Appalachian English. Dialect: This is a complex and often misunderstood concept. For linguists‚ a dialect is the collection of attributes (phonetic‚ phonological‚ syntactic‚ morphological‚ semantic) that make one group of speakers noticeably different from another group of speakers of the same language. People

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    Different dialect‚ different status‚ different identity? By: Angelina Costan What does the way we speak a language have to do with status and identity? Eliza Doolittle‚ who once was a flower girl‚ is now a noble lady. Her weird English dialect has changed into proper English‚ and now she is seen as an upper-class woman It appears that a dialect has a special role of determining someone’s status and change of dialect changes the person’s status in the society and identity. Is it true? People

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    Areas of study Accent Dialect Discourse analysis Language varieties Linguistic description Pragmatics Variation People Sociolinguists Related fields Applied linguistics Historical linguistics Linguistic anthropology Sociocultural linguistics Sociology of language Category Category Portal Linguistics portal v t e In sociolinguistics‚ prestige describes the level of respect accorded to a language or dialect as compared to that of other languages or dialects in a speech community.

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    Pakistan is a multi-lingual country. No less than 24 languages and dialects are spoken by the people of Pakistan. There are five regional languages. Punjabi‚ Sindhi‚ Pashto‚ Balochi‚ and Kashmiri. These languages are rich in literature‚ poetry‚ folk songs‚ and spiritual quotes of their respective saints and contribute greatly to the culture of Pakistan. The regional languages‚ though distinct from each other in their forms‚ dialects and expressions of thoughts‚ have several common factors in them

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    English is a rich and colorful language which is highly synonymous all over the world. Like any language it has been in constant flux. As members of a society grow and develop so too must the tools they use to communicate with each other. One reason for this is that there are so many variations of the language itself. In addition‚ it is such a widely spoken language‚ and it is spoken by people in all parts of the world. ’Non-native speakers of English now outnumber native speakers 3 to1’. In addition

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    English‚ the slaves had to learn English solely on auditory purposes. This essentially made the slaves illiterate. When the slaves transferred the language that they heard to paper‚ a new style of language was formed which was referred to as dialect. Dialect is what the slaves thought they heard and the correct spelling of those words‚

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