Double Modals Or Multiple Modals

“Authority and American Usage,” an interesting essay written by the brilliant and quick-witted David Foster Wallace, presents an argument on different ways of understanding the ever-changing American usage in the English language. Keeping up with the English language in America is like chasing your new, untrained puppy down the street. Tiring and basically impossible to get a hold of. Over the past centuries, the English language has evolved so much, that if you took a person from the 13th century and threw them in the middle of New York City in 2013, it would be as if two different languages were being spoken.

What is unique about the southern culture? The southern culture is unlike any other, it possesses a very diverse group with many different, ethnic communities, and religions. While still binding them all together with one common thread, their heritage. Even with all the differences, southerners embrace each other, reaching across the lines of color, religion, or social standing. Going the extra mile to help someone in need, even if they aren’t family, or a close friend.

A true southerner takes our language to heart and is proud to use it every day. Southern language is a language all of its own. It can tell a story like no other and breathe life to something that sounds boring. Just like Alabama author, Elizabeth Dewberry, states that southerner’s use of language is a delight and loves to tell stories with it. So a southerner’s use of language can make a colorful way to say something simple and pure.

There are some things that I agree and disagree with in the quote by John Shelton Reed. He is a very intelligent man, I would assume, if not I do not think he would be writing for the Harvard Encyclopedia. I do not think it is right to put all southerners into one classification based on a few southerners’ actions, education and financial standing. You can definitely tell when someone is southern. Southerners have a very distinct way of talking, dressing and acting. I agree with him when he said “Southerners are not usually identifiable by name or appearance, their accent usually serves as an ethnic marker.” Most people can hear a southerner talk and know right away that they are southern. I also agree with him when he said “They are seen,

This is also evident in British English and also Caribbean

The south offers a variety of food all cooked with love, and pride. The south serves what the world knows present day as soul food. Soul food is known as a comfort food due to the fact that it is normally served with family and friends in joyous moments of times. The south also specialize in barbecue. Grilling actually serves as an art form in the south. There are contest and festivals just to honor barbecue. And last but not least, the south takes pride in seafood. The south serves as the home of catfish, and offers a plethora of other seafood such as crawfish, and

There are some reasons because native English speakers are difficult to understand. Native English speakers have different ways of talking based on their original accent or where they grew up or just their style. Also, they usually speak like they would speak to another English native speaker. People that work on the radio or on broadcasting or on TV tend to speak very clearly. But people that use to work all day with other Americans speak very quickly and they may combine or omit some words more often. Others may speak less clearly because they’ve gotten so used to speaking with their own way, with their own accent and combining words together.

Through its erythematic meta-narrative, the modal assemblage constructed around Old Economy Steve advances a stern criticism of contemporary capitalism by romanticizing a particular memory of late-industrial capitalism. Although the meme invites disaffected Millennials to develop anti-neoliberal subjectivies, many critics argue that these minute, affectively focused, and participatory technologies are better understood as diversion or as ideological palliatives. The most direct indictment of the Old Economy Steve meme as complicit in control society is grounded in assertions that participation in the meme transforms political angst into a modal form increases participation within highly capitalized communication networks. Focusing this potential,

Black English and Standard English share many words in common, which might explain the resistance by many Americans to accept African American Vernacular as anything other than a dialect of English. In any event, Smitherman warns that Black English terms may be used differently or have unique meanings:

There is a common misconception of southerners and their variety of language being perceived as “dumb” or wrong. People get the idea of southerners being grammatically incorrect or illiterate because a multitude of movies and television shows portray them that way. Popular shows like The Dukes of Hazzard make out those who live in the Southern United States to use “non-proper English” (pbs). Yet through understanding and researching all of the features of SAE it is very evident that their speech is entirely correct in all characteristics of standard

There are hundreds of regional dialects within the same language. These dialects reflect the everyday experience of people living in different parts of the country and shape their cultural identity. Someone from Pittsburgh sounds very different than someone from Texas, and if they speak to each other, they will have a good guess as to where the other is from. The type of English spoken in the United States is commonly known as American English (Delaney). Various dialects are the result of historical, geographical, and social factors. There is a considerable range of language diversity within each of the different dialectal speech communities, with individual

Talking to my friends at home it can be like what’s up or I hear you and y’all should have seen this, examples of nonstandard English.

» EE makes an extensive use of Americanisms. The most frequent examples are the use of Excuse me instead of Sorry, and the constant repetition of the word mate.

Functionally, each modal has several meanings. They can be divided according to their meanings into being epistemic or deontic modals. Epistemic modals are used to indicate the speaker’s opinion about the truth of some proposition (Palmer, 1990). In other words, in the epistemic use, modals can be interpreted as indicating inference or some other process

Our approach to teaching HEL is to embrace the variation of language and give voice to ordinary people speaking these variants. While we must rely on textual documentation for most historical samples, we do have recordings of older speakers in American English that continue to exhibit some of the same dialect features found in early Englishes. These voices are found in the interview data collected for the Dictionary of American Regional English, a six-volume dictionary of regional American English variation (DARE, 1985-2012). As we near the end of our HEL course, we present an overview of the settlement patterns that have most influenced American regional dialects. Throughout these lectures, we play recordings from DARE speakers as evidence of dialect features that retain links to British and other historical English dialects. Past courses we have taught revealed that standard American English-speaking students are often dubious of language features or words that they have never heard before. To counter these views, we engage students in several linguistic sleuthing activities that allow them to become linguistic researchers as they must use DARE evidence to trace dialect features and word etymologies, thereby enriching students’ experiences learning the history of English. To illustrate, we present three such activities.