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Dialect

Dialect. What the heck?!. What is dialect?. Merriam Webster defines it as: “a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language.”

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Dialect

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  1. Dialect What the heck?!

  2. What is dialect? • Merriam Webster defines it as: “a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language.” • Basically, language (grammar, the way the language sounds, etc.) of different regions.

  3. Dialect cont’d • Dialect is something that you HEAR. • You might be able to see it (ex: second example of the Sojourner Truth speech), but most of the time it will be something that you can pick out just by hearing it.

  4. Hearing Dialect • Pop vs. Soda • Missouri vs. Missourah • Checking vs. Checkings • Wal-Mart vs. Wal-Marks • What kind of dialect do the people of Missouri have? • Which region would think that we talk “funny”?

  5. Examples of dialect • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieqDYg5cWL4&feature=relmfu • What kind of dialect do we see in this example? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuT32MQFNzk&playnext=1&list=PL42D358DD5C9C30E6&feature=results_main • What is the dialect of this example? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVjJ8rqFA_8&feature=fvwrel • What is the dialect that we hear in this example?

  6. Dialect in Sojourner Truth • How does dialect affect the way we read Sojourner Truth’s speech? • Find FIVE examples of dialectal differences between the two speeches. • The version on the right represents the African American English dialect. • In the middle column, write what you would say in typical Missouri-dialect. • Remember, dialect is determined by region and people groups. • Example: African American English dialect,

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