Dialect Essay Examples

During the Nazi reign, various groups were labeled as “racially inferior,” such as Poles (with 6 million deaths – including 3 million Christians and the remaining Jewish), Seers (with an estimated death count ranging from 500,000 to 1.2 million), Bosnians (around 100,000 individuals), Soviet prisoners of war and occupied civilians like Russians and other East […]

“Oh, single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thou Susan a year. What a fine thing for our girls! ” The author is stating that since a man is single and rich, he is a perfect match for not only her girls but any. This is a […]

Montage is in the hospital, reflecting on his wife’s experience of being admitted to a machine that could clean out her brain and memory. He compares it to taking laundry to a dry cleaner, where the pockets are emptied, cleaned, and returned all in the morning. He is resentful that her mind couldn’t be cleaned […]

Kumalo, the protagonist of the novel, boards a passenger car exclusively for non-Europeans. This compartment is already occupied by individuals from his own race who are deemed less significant. The practice of segregating train cars for non-European passengers would have been acceptable in the time period depicted in the story. Nonetheless, contemporary readers may perceive […]

Entry 1. page 5“But subsequently the townsfolk. theretofore sufficiently unfearful of each other to seldom problem to lock their doors. found fantasy re-creating them over and over again—those drab detonations that stimulated fires of misgiving in the blaze of which many old neighbours viewed each other queerly. and as aliens. ” I found this quotation […]

I am a Minnesotan. I have lived here all my life and may continue to do so. Stereotype me: The 10 o’clock news is my window dressing for the 10 o’clock weather (Mohr, 9). You betcha it is. Yah. I wouldn’t want you to think that I’m not happy here-it could be worse. Lutefisk. . […]

Doubles and opposites: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, (…)” In the first chapter of A Tale of Two cities, Dickens emphasizes the fact of how bad the people lived. “It was the worst of times,” due to mistreatment from the third estate. But it was also the “best […]

Thinking about the subjective nature of language, communication reflects cultural values and perspectives. It also creates or reproduces culture by naming and normalizing practices valued by the culture. We develop an appreciation for how people of different generations and cultures have viewed each of these different words and their meanings. Some women may find the […]

Hokkien is originated in the Southern region of Fujian province which is an important centre for trade and migration. From the deal, trade and migration of the people from China to overseas, the dialect has since spread beyond China and becoming one of the most common Chinese languages in the overseas. Apart from Taiwan, a […]

Standard English is an idealised variety that constitutes a set of norms associated with intellectualism, professionalism and prestige adopted by the educated speakers of English. As it is of a prescriptive nature, it constitutes what is deemed as the ‘correct’ use of grammar and vocabulary and often found in formal registers of language. Whilst it […]

Be able to identify my own use of language in a variety of situations with different people. My idiolect is English, Mirpuri and Urdu. I speak English the most when I am in public, because the community around me also speak English as it is their mother tongue. I have been taught this well-known language […]

Linguists and EFL teachers often use the term “Received Pronunciation” (RP) to refer to the prestigious pronunciation of British English. It is commonly recognized that RP no longer implies a specific region, such as London or southeastern England. Rather, it now represents a dialect or sociolect linked to social class. As a result, it is […]

Strong accents and dialects are dying out because of the world today needs standard clear communication where everyone speaks and writes in the same way. It is better not to reveal your wealth and status with your accent. Discuss with reference to your own regional voice. We all speak with an accent and we all […]

(The entries featuring “n” are influenced by words from No Fear Shakespeare.) Although my thoughts in this passage might have wording similar to those found on the website, they are my own ideas. I used the internet entries as a reference while writing, without directly copying them. In this scene (I.ii.a,b,ia), the king discusses his […]

Conrad’s fragile calm is shattered as the small seed of despair sprouts and reaches out experimentally towards him. He clings desperately to his only hope, but cannot find solace because today marks a significant deadline – Tuesday, September 30th – exactly one month since he returned home. Meanwhile, Garrett continues to pose perplexing questions such […]

Historical sources show that Filipino words began to be borrowed into the English of the American colonizers at a very early stage in the colonial period. Today, the English used in the Philippines has a distinctive localized vocabulary which finds expression in a range of settings, including government, education, and the media as well as […]

Vernacular Dialect in Their Eyes Were Watching God In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorn Neal Hurst, the spoken words of the characters are often simple and rough. Hurst uses vernacular dialect in order to preserve the culture of southern blacks in the early twentieth century. The author’s use of dialect in […]

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 […]

Rationale: The Cebuano language is widely spoken in the Philippines. It is the primary language of approximately 15 million people living in the central part of the country. The Cebuano people have been using a single dialect but with different accent, pronunciation, meaning, and the way they deliver it. Cebuano is the language spoken in […]