How the Garcia Girls lost their Accents. In How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents‚ Julia Alvarez discusses the four girls’transition from the Dominican Republic to America. The Garcia’s are an immigrant family who must find a balance between their identity as Dominicans and their new identities as Americans. Yolanda‚ the sister on whom the story primarily focuses‚ must find a balance between the strict and old fashioned culture she comes from and the new‚ innovative and radical culture she is
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BOOK REPORT. 1. How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. 2. Julia Alvarez in 1950 - 1990. 3. Born in New York of Dominican descent‚ she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic. 4. Major Characters; Carla - As the oldest amongst the four girls‚ she feels left out and out of place when her family moved to the United States and finds it hard to fit in her new social and cultural environment. She was harassed at school by malicious and prejudiced boys‚ and felt
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Abraham Lincoln: The Abolishment of Slavery Through Dialect Abraham Lincoln was a dialogic rhetorician who seemed intent on prompting others to discussion and action through the power of words. The one great consistency that exists across the rhetoric of Lincoln’s early administration is that‚ in conversations with friends and critics‚ in his written correspondence and in his public speeches‚ he listened‚ considered‚ and then replied to the arguments of others. With the determination to abolish
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Explain the trends of dialect leveling and internal variation in the process of development of new varieties of Englishes. "Dialect differences are reduced as speakers acquire features from other varieties as well as avoid features from their own variety that are somehow different. This may occur over several generations until a stable compromise dialect develops."(Siegel‚ 1997) The writer here is referring the linguistic accommodation made by speakers with different dialects to eventually converge
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A Personal Dialect In Amy Tan’s essay‚ “Mother Tongue‚” Tan expresses that she uses different versions of the English language depending on the type of relationship she shares with particular individuals. While Tan gave a speech to a group of people‚ she noticed a difference in her register of speech when she spoke to a group of people versus when she spoke to her mother. She noticed her use of “carefully wrought grammatical phrases” and “the forms of standard English that I had learned in school
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Imploding the Miranda Complex in Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Jennifer Bess The article of Jennifer Bess who is an assistant professor of Peace Studies at Coucher College in Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ starts with a quotation from Alice Walker’ s book The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart: A diary like this‚ with so many blank pages‚ seems to reflect a life permeated with gaps‚ an existence full of holes. But perhaps that is what happens when one’s experience
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Chinese clan or dialect associations in past and present day Singapore 1. Introduction Ever since the immigration of the Chinese into Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century‚ they had started grouping themselves into different types of traditional organizations. In even a small country like Singapore‚ a respectable number of organizations were set up. There were clans‚ dialect associations‚ hui kuans‚ guilds‚ bangs and secret societies. These traditional organizations served a variety of functions
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characteristics to distinguish it from the other varieties of Chinese dialects. This period in Chinese history is seen as one of the most glorious to the Cantonese people and is why they refer to themselves as Tong yan‚ or literally people of the Tang dynasty. The fact that Cantonese has anywhere from six to nine tones and keeps the final consonants of the older language makes it the closest out of all the other Chinese dialects to Ancient Chinese. Learners of any tonal language find themselves at
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From the list of concepts stated above‚ I have chosen to describe the concepts of dialect‚ context of situation‚ native speaker and lingua franca with regards to the local context in my discussion. Dialect In Singapore‚ the racial groups are categorized into their ‘dialect groups’‚ meaning their ‘ethnic’ groups. It is stated that “every Singaporean has an officially allocated ‘dialect group’ which normally corresponds to the paternal ancestral language‚ but does not necessarily to anything in the
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When Yolanda was young she liked to sneak into a shed that was said to be haunted by ghosts and spirits to search for devils. It was during one of these visits that she found a mother cat and her kittens. She decides to bring one of the kittens home with her to keep as a pet‚ this despite having been told by a stranger that the kittens are too young to be taken from their mother. As soon as she reaches her home with the kitten she grows annoyed with it’s meows and throws it out the window‚ causing
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