How did
the developments of industrial revolution, colonial expansion, and the wars
affect the language?
Discuss
the implications of the rise and enforcement of RP English? (The Education Act
of 1870).What is RP English?
What is
the story of the OED? In what way is it an effect of the Romantic
attitude toward language?
What
historical and social factors contributed to the different attitudes toward
language study during this period?
What
are the three types of colonialism discussed there? Be ready to give an
example of each.
What
are the three basic movements of English to American?
What
are the major dialect regions of
What is
the basic relationship between English and Native American languages?
What is
the connection between these areas and
Cite at
least one example of a regional dialectal feature of a regional dialect that
distinguishes it from another one.
What is
meant by dialect leveling and internal differentiation regarding American
dialects?
How,
when, and from where did English come to
What
are the principal differences between the language of those who settled
From
the videotape you should recall the
What
are some features of Scotch-Irish dialect in
From
the videotape you should recall the connection between Scots-Irish migration to
How is it that the
Scotch-Irish dialect spread and has become so prominent
What are the major
non-English migrations to American?
Discuss the creole
hypothesis of African-American Vernacular English?
From the videotape
you should recall the connection between West African pidgin and Plantation
Creole and Gullah and then African-American Vernacular English or Ebonics.
What is a pidgin
versus a creole?What are some of the better know
English creoles?
Finally, recall the
latter migration of Europeans to American in the 19th century
population the north, principally with Germans, Jews, and Italians, thus
affecting the dialect areas in
Remember the sorts
of things discussed as grammar: verb form, noun morphology, pronoun, and syntax.
3.In the syntax of
asking questions, what is a notable variation?
What is the
difficulty of the relationship between determiners and nouns?
What in our pronoun
system shows the greatest flux and variety? Why?
6.What is regional
dialectology and isoglosses?
7. What is meant by linguistic atlases
and how does that inform the new dictionary of American
English DARE?
Are people
evaluated according to their accents?
What according to
our authors is the meaning of the terms style shifting versus code shifting?
What is the
relationship between style shifting and social identity?Be
able to use the terms accommodation theory and convergence and divergence in
your answer.
What is the
difference between good and bad English?How are
judgments made why are they made?
What are the two
primary camps of language judges?
How does political
correctness factor into language judgments?
What is meant be
grammar versus usage?