to unify a nation through creating rules around written and spoken language with agreed terms of usage. The four processes involved in standardisation‚ are the selection of which language will be used‚ (especially in a country where many tribal dialects may exist and everybody needs to be treated fairly to avoid conflict)‚ then elaboration of grammatical structures and vocabulary within the language. Next would be codification which would reduce language variations and potential misinterpretation
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comparing the literacy abilities of African American (AA) children to that of their peers‚ there seems to be a significant variance and a general lack of understanding in several of these skills. With the possibility of an African American English (AAE) dialect influencing reading comprehension‚ there needs to be a strategy to increase literacy in these students.
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The student’s data Transcript between my friend (S) and me (E) E: uhhm (3) well (1) I’m looking *forward+ (filler – first of many – um‚well‚ like!) S: *what (.) maybe+ (2) don’t turn away when you’re talking (2) E: Whaju-mean? S: (1) well (.) yeah ‘cause it won’t pick up your voice (.) *so easily+ E: *oh OK (.)+ yeah (2) well it’s just hard to (3) um (.) I’m just gonna put thee (.) um (.) piece of paper over it (write about ‘thee’ – filler) S: Oh I wouldn’t do that (.) cause it
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Fellows and Oakley (2014‚ p. 39) state that here are many varieties (dialects) of English that are spoken throughout the world; it can be a regional (geographical area) or a social dialect (social characteristics). Crystal‚ (2013) explains that the globalisation of English means that countries around the world are taking up English and making it their own and are adapting it to
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markedly within a small area. These variations in language constitutes its dialects. All languages are continuously changing but if there is a common change it has never been convincingly described. Various factors especially the use of written language have led to the development of a standard language in most of the major speech communities a special official dialect of a language that is theoretically maintained unchanged
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Literature Guide Developed by Kristen Bowers for Secondary Solutions® ISBN 0-9772295-4-8 © 2006 Secondary Solutions. All rights reserved. A classroom teacher who has purchased this guide may photocopy the materials in this publication for his/her classroom use only. Use or reproduction by a part of or an entire school or school system‚ by for-profit tutoring centers and like institutions‚ or for commercial sale‚ is strictly prohibited
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different dialects of it. A dialect is a variety in a language based on the region. Some of the many different dialects of American English are New York English‚ Coastal Southern English‚ Black English and many others (Vajda). Now‚ how can American English be called a "pure" language when it its own country‚ it is divided
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adapted in different situations and how the attitudes of other people influenced these adaptions Over the years as time passes by our language progresses and develops. People all around the world will have their own form of how they speak different dialects‚ languages or accents. Today I’m going to be exploring and evaluating the factors that affect the way my own spoken language can adapt in different situations and how the attitudes of other people influence these adaptions. In everyday life I adapt
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Standard English‚ Andrew Neil does not speak in this way but in a colloquial dialect with plenty of hedges and fillers for example ‘wouldn’t foster with a barge pole’. Since Andrew Neil has been interviewed‚ as editor of the Sunday Times and‚ on This Week‚ been interviewing for a long time‚ he shows experience by the way that the speed of his talking is constant and the way he transforms fillers into professional dialect. For example in the transcript there seems to be plenty of hedges and fillers
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using non-standard Bahasa or Malay that is Peranakan ( Chinese Straits) to their children. When I ask them why they can t speak Chinese‚ they say that their parents never taught them although I knew my grandparents do speak in one of the chinese dialect. My parents felt comfortable communicating in Peranakan as the surrounding neighbours too are using the language. As for me‚ I get to learn the language as my mother tongue and
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