Jamaican English

Today’s society consist of many diverse populations. Our nation is full of people from all sorts of ethnic backgrounds. The government conducts a survey of the census and provides information regarding the diversity of the nation. However, some individuals are lumped into a category and their culture is misrepresented. How would you feel about being called an African American when you are Jamaican? Would you lose some form of identity? Let us begin by exploring an assessment conducted on a Jamaican woman to learn more about her diverse culture. Description of the Person and Cultural Heritage I interviewed a 36 year old Jamaican woman. Some of her features include a medium body, long black braided hair, and medium black skin tone.…

of Jamaica finding lunch was a constant struggle since there was not any Jamaican food available in the financial district. We noticed an abundance of other type of food trucks such as Halal, Taco, Chinese, Thai. A Jamaican food Truck was not in sight. Research shows, over the past five years, the Food truck industry has seen experience tremendous growth. Driven by budget conscious customers who are looking for unique gourmet cuisine. Based on recent data the industry has grown 12.4 % of the…

of twelve, I moved to the United States of America in the hope and dream of becoming an American citizen in the “land of opportunity.” The transition from the Jamaican culture to the American culture was difficult to get accustomed to. I was taught to read, write and speak the Standard American English which is basically a foreign tongue to the Jamaican people causing much pain and anguish. There was a point where I wanted to give up on reading and writing altogether. Through schooling, I…

Language encodes the values and norms of any given culture. Louis Bennett, a Jamaican poet, pioneers the writing of Jamaicans in their own language. Jamaican patois is an english based creole language with West African influences. This patois serviced slaves as a secret form of communication without slave masters knowing the meaning. In Bennett’s poem “Cus Cus” two women are bickering back and forth in Jamaican patois “Gwan gal yuh fava teggereg Ah wey yuh gwine goh do?Yuh an yuh boogooyagga…

live. Gullah Language- When assigned this paper, the first language that I thought about as Gullah. Gullah is an English-based, creolized dialect, however it is not a written language. When I was first introduced…

1973) /im di tell unu/ “He told you” (Jamaicansinting, 2012) JSE use “you” much in the same way as any variety of Standard English; JSE Second Person Personal…

This can be produced in three distinct categories inner. Outer and expanding. Each circle represents where language has spread and the diversities of different cultures. The inner circle is described by Jenkins (2003:15-17) as being norm producing, this can be interpreted as being countries who originally had English as their first language. This can therefore provide a standard of English that other countries can follow. Conclusion From looking at dialects and accents it can show that language…

Since officials exhibited such latitude in determining what constituting an act of piracy, Letters of Marque became crucially important during the seventeenth century to shield sailors from potential charges. English courts clearly identified the legal demarcation between privateers and pirates as early as the fourteenth century. The sovereign issued commissions to privateer captains authorizing them to attack the vessels of specified enemy nations. Since piracy included an element of robbery,…

family and colleagues. For example, not on purpose I add a little bit of Arabic accent with my spoken English language which makes it difficult for others to catch what I say quickly. Idiolect relates to sociolect as the social environment effects that person lives and change their way of pronunciation, the word and the phrase. Sociolect relates to dialect because they are all in the same community as the social groups takes takes the language of the area which is dialect. The main factors…

George Kolanchery MODULE:1 SECTION:A Question 2: Explain, with examples, how language varies according to the context in which it is spoken or written. Although English is not the language with the largest numbers of native or ‘first’ language speakers, it has become a lingua franca. A lingua franca can be defined as “a language widely adopted for communication between two speakers whose native languages are different from each other’s and where one or both speakers are using it as…