The Real-World-Ready Project

Language is a very important and significant part of individuals’ life. It is considered as one of the best device of social behavior. Language is a means with the help of which people communicate and send a social message to one another. But language does have very special characteristics according to which it changes and very depending on many factors. According to the researchers there are no two people who speak identically. Their languages vary as per their geographic location, age, gender, ethnicity, social background etc. many a time, it is observed that even the members from same family speak differently due to differences in their location ( Biber & Conrad, 2014). For example, in my neighborhood, there is a difference in the ways of

Linguistic: the scientific study of language and its structure, including the study of morphology, syntax, phonetics, and semantics.

The second is the overriding concept that Midwestern English is inherently “accent-less,’ when compared to other variations of English within the United States. While Midwestern English is distinct enough to be included in many hand-drawn dialect maps of the US, the Midwestern “accent” is often labeled as “unknown accent” (Hartley 2005) (Preston et al 2002). This is because many people outside of the Midwest believe that the region has no distinguishable accent or linguistic feature to stereotype (Preston et al 2002). As much of the Midwest was (and continues to be) agriculturally based, there are very few distinct “working class accents,” as are common in New York City (Hartley 2005).

In this course theme, I am able to explore various type of languages spoke in the US and how different languages can unite a nation. What sounds more attractive is that how these languages exists in US and how the represent their cultures and social identities as well as their uniqueness through the language they use. US has its unique identity in which English is spoke differently in one region to another region. The language itself stands as one, but how it is mixed with certain dialects converting it into a new dialect. For instance, the Standard American English is used by most of the people from Midwest while Ebonics which is the African American English is used by the African is

The program addresses various questions about language, its history and development and current status. The hosts provide detailed explanation of the certain aspect of the English language and answer questions from the listeners. This program is based on the scientific research and background and is aiming to allow various listeners to explore English. The hosts address questions and problems that are familiar for most of the people

In this paper there are several sections from two of the interviews that we conducted. We will analyze segments of the interview that are transcribed in the paper while focusing on the phonetics in the way they speak and other language aspects. Included in this paper is a map of the area considered to be West Hollywood with its borders. This map will also be analyzed and compared to the other maps that both our participants/interviewees drew on when we told them to label the different ways that people speak in Los Angeles and another map that they labeled with the different ways that people speak within that West Hollywood. This paper will conclude of how original West Hollywood really is, yet how it can still fits in to make it all a part of the Greater Los Angeles

Language is a powerful tool that the average person uses on a day-to-day basis. There are many dialects and accents within each language in the world. Sometimes people manipulate the way they speak in order to achieve a goal. This paper will serve to illustrate a particular dialect that is being manipulated in order to achieve a goal. I chose to analyze the speech of Larry the Cable Guy and will attempt to explain the language bias he employs.

It is well known that in Costa Rica people count with a huge variety of expressions and sayings that can be understood just by folks who have grown along both Costa Rican culture and identity. For instance, what would you understand if someone tells you: How are you, “Pura Vida?” It may be difficult for foreigners to interact using this kind of lexicon. This means, that Costa Ricans have acquired a different way of speaking depending on the situation, and place where they socialize. Based on this social phenomenon, it is claim that it is pretty important to analyze deeply the linguistic facts that are present in the way of communicating around the country. This is an enormous topic because it involves different types of social aspects.

Non-standard dialects are regarded with contempt, mistreated as improper forms of a language. Linguists and researchers reported that speakers of minor varieties seem to form negative attitudes towards their culture, rating their own varieties badly and lacking respect for them (Lambert et al., 1960; Genesee & Holobow, 1989, as cited in Campbell-Kibler, 2011). With the fear of being prejudged, speakers of other dialects begin to feel inferior about their vernacular dialect and start to use the variety with higher status when they are surrounded by outsiders and they would employ their dialect again only if they are with their tribes (Petyt,

The purpose of this study is to observe the different forms of language used in an everyday setting and to study how the language has changed from its original form. As novice anthropologists, we must begin to recognize phonemes and morphemes through studying these sound patterns and word formations in syntax we may recognize or think is ordinary. Through this process we are able to think more deeply about the language we hear on an everyday basis while also learning how to identify social dialects as well as being able to code switch, to a limited degree. To

The contact between languages is one of the various fields investigated by socio-linguistics. Commonly it is thought that monolingualism is the most usual linguistic behaviour but language studies disprove this belief showing that all speech communities and individuals hold a rich linguistic repertoire which may include two or more distinct languages, different varieties of the same language and a wide range of registers, styles, social codes etc.

Language is a means of communication used by human being. It is, of course, very important since it is used to interact with one another, convey the information from other human beings and express one’s feeling and emotion. The use of language is constructed in a special way depending on the topics, the participant and the situation.

Introduction: Phonetics and phonology both study the sound system but in a different way. Phonetics and Phonology both are important for a language as phonetics represents the speech production system and the perception of human beings, sign language and phonology represents the sound system conveying its meaning. Every language has language system by which we can communicate and pronounce words in a good way. Linguistics is called as the “Scientific Study of Language”. Linguistics utilizes scientific formulas and principles in language system. Linguistics has several branches. Phonetics and phonology are the two fundamental branches of them. Phonology often guided by phonetics. Phonology is also sometimes called as phonemics or phonematics. The main difference between phonetics and phonology is that phonetics concerned with physical properties of pronouncing sounds and phonology concerned with the organized structure of language though these two study the sound system.

Originally, linguistics was my intended major. Recently, I decided to switch my major to anthropology, and more specifically, the field of linguistic anthropology. For the linguistics major, one of my requirements for transferring to a university was to take a language and culture class. Several of the first lectures focused on the history of linguistics and anthropology. I was introduced to the idea that language, thought, and culture all influence each other. This meant that studying language, when divorced from the concept of culture, creates a myopic view of linguistics. It had never occurred to me that linguistic does not occur in a vacuum and needs to be examined alongside the culture it is associated with. Seeds of change were then sown in my mind. As the class progressed, I found myself growing more interested in the subject as a whole, and so anthropology became my major.

Learning about dialects was another interesting topic we discussed in class, the topic made me really think deep about what kind of dialect I use in everyday life. Dialects are a specific variation of a language in a particular region or ethic group with individualized phonological features to wide range of groups. A large part of decoding dialects is the understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet, phonology, and phonemes used in the different areas you might be teaching in. Phonology is the study of sound and phonemes is the smallest unit of sound both are key to use and listen for when in a new region of the country. The International Phonetic Alphabet represents the sounds letters make for a spoken language and when written the word reads as a certain dialect. Lexical features of dialects are the preferred terms of words used in certain dialects with different synonyms used by other dialects. Learning about dialects also taught me how people code-switch from home to public settings.