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a mountain range, etc., that has served historically to keep two populations apart also serves to create differences in speech (R...
nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...
A 5 page consideration of the use of local dialect in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. The focus is on the character Roxanne. Ba...
When speaking of society, many questions loom large. For example, what holds society together and causes it to function as a body ...
the 1830s did not refer to blacks without using the epithet "nigger," or some other derogatory term. But because Twain accurately ...
learn the ways in which standard English developed -- that no language remains "fixed" but is rather a constantly evolving, adapti...
reality of this situation is that some accents are associated more closely with the accent that is perceived as the societal norm ...
to Green Library Collections," the linguistic expert can access a good deal of information including some background about pidgin ...
In five pages the ways in which ethnic dialects are used in the stories of West Side Story and Manhattan Transfer are considered. ...
a guinea(which had St. Georges image on it) and a pitman(Oxford Dictionary 1988). The other idea is that the people of that region...
of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy...
In five pages the theories of Hegel and Marx are contrasted and compared in a consideration of the absolute idealism dialect of He...
In eight pages this research paper considers the persona that ensnared late 19th century African American poet Paul Laurence Dunba...
In five pages Mark Twain's use of regional dialects in his classic 1884 American novel is examined with its intentions often being...
In five pages this paper discusses how dialect is used for the purposes of realism in this late 19th century American novel. Ther...
In six pages contemporary linguistics are examined in a terminology overview that includes register versus dialect, descriptive ve...
distinctly African-American and southern voice promotes a sense of New Orleans good food and good times. It would appear that thr...
In five pages this paper discusses language in terms of origin and how it may be used by animals with dialects among the topics co...
In five pages this paper discusses the local culture that is reflected in the pidgin dialect. Four sources are cited in the bibli...
entertaining of all ethnicities, for they are extremely vocal and animated at the same time. In a crowd or at a family gathering,...
In six pages the various dialect types represented in this novel are examined. There is one other source used in the bibliography...
however, abruptly introduce us into the world he is from and although the average reader will have no knowledge of the accuracy of...
the verb to be, such as in he be hollering at us (Powell, 1997). Other aspects of this dialect is to drop the consonants at the en...
Dickens is an author who, for many, characterizes the Victorian literary era. He had first received public recognition as a newsp...
Joseph Conrad's use of dialect and other literary techniques was influenced by many writers who came before. This paper links his ...
This idea, she says, is not hypothetical; the grammar and syntax peculiar to Black English Vernacular have been known for several ...
its history, was a country that was invaded many times, and settled by a variety of different groups (Irelandseye.com, 2004). By t...
live on the outskirts of town an all, sometimes theres stuff that comes in. But dont you worry," Rowan said slapping me on the bac...
dialect, plain speaking, and easily conversational (Bloom 95). The subject of local gossips whispers, the thrice-married Janie co...
accident but by necessity-of course, I mean biological, not logical, necessity. Thus UG can be taken as expressing the essence of ...