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Newbrook, Mark – 1990
Most studies of dialects in English-language literature have focused on works of the nineteenth century or earlier. However, modern literature can expand the scope of dialectological investigation. In John Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye," use of non-standard dialect forms occurs when the author uses an unusually informal register…
Descriptors: Authors, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Dialogs (Language)
Download full textKochman, Thomas – 1983
To be culturally valid, the characteristics identified by dialectologists as distinctive of black English must correspond to the terms members of the black community use to characterize their speech. Not all of the patterns that characterize black English within the dialectal framework are equal in their social or ethnic significance--the speech…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Black Culture, Black Dialects, Cultural Awareness
Peer reviewedGiles, Howard; Bourhis, Richard Y. – Language Sciences, 1975
An investigation is reported which was designed to determine to what extent second generation male West Indians have accommodated to local white speech norms in the city of Cardiff. (RM)
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Ethnic Groups
Peer reviewedSomervill, Mary Ann – Journal of Negro Education, 1974
An examination of the language of the disadvantaged, particularly black dialect, exploring the conflicting views of the deficit and difference model theorists. The necessity of distinguishing between meaning and structure is emphasized as a potential avenue of reconciliation for the two divergent perspectives. (EH)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Differences, Dialect Studies, Educationally Disadvantaged
Gomez, Ernesto; Cerda, Gilberto – 1976
Results of a study documenting the Mexican American's unique Spanish dialectal expressions used in the barrios of San Antonio, Texas, and its surrounding areas are presented. The expressions included are those which were not recorded in the "Diccionario de la Real Academia Espanola" (19th Edition) or which were recorded therein but with…
Descriptors: Definitions, Dialect Studies, Folk Culture, Glossaries
Merrill, Celia – 1977
This paper describes a method for determining whether the language variations of Spanish-English bilingual speakers are anomalous, idiosyncratic, or truly dialectical, and reports the testing of that method. Elements of the method include presenting sentences that have grammatical/syntactic language variations, having subjects perform operational…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies
Ciborowski, Tom; Price-Williams, D. – 1975
Fifty-six bidialectical rural Hawaiian children participated in a study to determine whether they possessed comparable communicative competence in both dialects (Hawaiian-Creole English and standard English). The subjects, selected from kindergarten, first, third, and sixth grades, worked in groups of two to complete a communication task. Half of…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Creoles, Cultural Influences
POSTMAN, NEIL; WEINGARTNER, CHARLES – 1967
THIS HANDBOOK OF MODERN LINGUISTICS HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR THE ADULT LAYMAN OR TEACHER WHO NEEDS A GENERAL BACKGROUND IN LINGUISTICS AS WELL AS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE "LINGUISTIC APPROACH" AS IT IS BEING INTRODUCED IN ENGLISH TEACHING TODAY. THE AUTHORS HAVE TAKEN THE STAND THAT LINGUISTICS IS HERE TO STAY--ALONG WITH THE "NEW…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Grammar
WEENER, PAUL DAVID – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO INVESTIGATE THE INFLUENCE OF PHONETIC, SYNTACTIC, AND SEMANTIC DIALECT DIFFERENCES ON COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PERSONS FROM DIFFERENT DIALECT COMMUNITIES. THE THREE HYPOTHESES UPON WHICH THE STUDY WAS BASED STATED THAT PHONETIC, SYNTACTIC, AND SEMANTIC FEATURES OF DIALECT DIFFERENCES WOULD EACH CONTRIBUTE TO…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Children, Dialect Studies, Language Research
Kay, Paul – 1974
The purpose of this paper is to present systematically some facts regarding interdialectal constant and varying features of the semantics of English kinship terminology. The data present some problems for current views of grammar and of linguistic variation. Regarding the former, it is not clear what sort of "rule," what place in…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, English, Folk Culture, Language Research
Metcalf, Allan A. – 1979
The English spoken by Spanish-surnamed Americans of the southwestern United States often has a Spanish flavor, even though the speakers may have no competence in Spanish. This Chicano English is discussed in a series of descriptions based on a number of previous studies of regional variations. Each description covers pronunciation, intonation,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Dialect Studies, English, Intonation
JULDASEV, A.A. – 1964
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STANDARD NORM IN THE BASHKIR NATIONAL LANGUAGE BEGAN, ESSENTIALLY, AS LATE AS THE 1930'S AFTER THE FORMATION OF THE BASHKIR A.S.R. BEFORE THIS, THE BASHKIR LANGUAGE DID NOT HAVE A STANDARD LITERARY FORM. PROGRESSIVE BASHKIR EDUCATORS OF THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES FOUGHT FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE…
Descriptors: Bashkir, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, History
Troike, Rudolph C. – TESOL Quarterly, 1968
Discussed briefly by the author are some of the "most immediately relevant" implications for TESOL which arise from research studies in dialectology. One phenomenon, which until recently has received little attention, is that of "receptive bi-dialectalism" or "bilingualism." One of the earliest observations of this…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Dialect Studies, English (Second Language)
Chao, Y.R. – 1968
The processes involved in "borrowing" words and structures between languages and among dialects are discussed and illustrated. Interlingual borrowings between Chinese and other languages have taken place in several different ways. Sometimes the sounds of the foreign word are imitated using the sounds of the borrowing language ("leidar" for 'radar'…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Diachronic Linguistics
Reed, Carroll E. – 1977
This book examines dialect variations in the United States. Chapter topics include an introduction to dialect study, colonial English, eastern settlement, eastern words, eastern pronunciation, eastern grammar, the westward movement, sectional atlas studies (the Great Lakes, the Upper Middle West, Texas, Colorado and other Rocky Mountain areas,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns, Language Styles
