Accent

since everyone utilizes it differently allowing people to show who they are. When I was in the sixth grade, I attended a summer camp where many of the campers were from Tennessee. Living in Alabama, I believed that I had a southern accent, but these campers made my accent seem nonexistent. Many people have stories like this one where they sound different or used different words than the people that they are speaking with at the time. In James Baldwin’s essay, he discussed how various ways of…

In the early 20th century Europeans were not considered, to American’s standard, as white—even if some Europeans were clearly Caucasians (Omi and Winant, pg. 21). Then in the early 1900s, Americans adopted the phrase “separate but equal”. Now in the 21st century, people, regardless or color, now have the same opportunities for a better life. While people of different backgrounds aren’t looked down upon much anymore, nothing is perfect. There are still those few individuals who simply cannot…

season. There are two pure orange pigments, Chrome orange and Realgar.Other shades of orange were popularly found in oil paintings and water colors. The complementary color of orange is a greenish - blue color. Orange is used mostly as an accent color, bringing out the other colors around it. It wasn't until around the 70’s when orange became a popular color, where it became symbolic for bright and eye catching garments. To help advance the colors evolution…

worker of Anglo origin, who has spent lesser time with the company was given the promotion instead. Infact Maria said her supervisor told her that she was not being promoted because he feared that their clients would have trouble understanding her accent. Maria also pointed out that she is not only the only Latina, she is the only person of color and the only woman in the department. She claims that her lower evaluations reflect a built-in bias on the part of her white male supervisors. This led…

mother and father were illiterate, unable to read or write because they were never pushed in school and ended up dropping out before graduation. This is not because they didn’t want to learn, but because of their deep southern accent or what many people think of as a hillbilly accent they didn’t have a teacher educational system that believed in. They assume that because they were from the country then surely they must be simple and unintelligent.…

them self. Yet why do we do not accept the people who are different? “Mother tongue” is are on the article written by Amy Tan. In the story, she discusses about her mother ‘fractured” English. How her mother faced difficulties because she had an accent when she talked. She said that “some says they understand none of it is as if she were speaking pure Chinses.” instead of praising her that she is bilingual. She has a privilege of knowing multiple languages. People made fun of her. There are…

David French is a well-known Canadian playwright and his play Salt-Water Moon showcases Canadian identity in many ways. Through the dialect spoken by the protagonists, Mary Snow and Jacob Mercer, in a Canadian accent instead of the Newfoundland accent the play intended, the Canadian identity is questioned. Also, with the play being focused around Mary and Jacob living in the aftermath of World War One and the battle of Beaumont Hamel, French makes known the battle that ultimately slaughtered…

Australia we are never going to speak the same way. Why is that? Antstralia is arguably one of the most culturally diverse nations in the world. Our diversity extends from food to culture to our widely varying language. Australians utilise different accents to achieve a wide range of social purposes. Our language evolves and shifts to cater for our changing needs and the increasing influx of immigrants will bring more and more cultural mix into Austrlaina. And for these reasons, our language…

by Dennis Freeborn social variable is dramatise as "The first, and most obvious, social grouping related to accent is social class. Although we often label regional accents as coming from particular geographical areas - a city of a county, for example - it is clear thet not everyone in that area will speak in the same way. Social class seems to stand in inverse relationship to regional accent. That is, the higher up the social and occupational ladder we look, the fewer regional features we fing.…

With increased mobility, mass media and culture, it is posited that cultural diversity may be slowly be disappearing, and with it so are regional dialects and accents. In a 1994 essay, Tabbert writes about regional variants - words that vary between regions, but describe the same object such as pail vs. bucket or frying pan vs. skillet. He explains, “as a result of what we might call the homogenization of experience…