In Chaika chapter seven, this chapter speaks on how everyone has a certain dialect that they speak. Not all are the same but everyone is categorized into one. As I was going through this chapter this one particular person kept coming across my mind becasue I cant figure out the dialect that they speak. My mom was on a phone interview and the person that she was interviewing was asian. We could tell she was because of her asian accent, but this lady also had a southern accent. From this it was very hard to understand what she was saying and at the same time it was very shocking to hear becasue I had never heard anyone with an asian accent but southern as well. Becauses of her southern accent, that would be categorized under AAVE but combing them both gives a new type.
My question would be how is this type of dialect.language categorized?
Good question, I am not sure if there is even a category for her Asian/southern dialect. I would presume that, for down south, there is the southern accent, but I have not heard of any combination category for the southern accent and Asian dialect. Intriguing question you present, however, I would say a category should be made for the people with multiple dialects. Since African American Vernacular English and standard American English is only two categories, for our melting pot of a country, there should be more categories for the ones who do not fit into either or.
ReplyDeleteI also noticed that people may speak more than one dialect and one dialect may be more dominant than the other. Another thing I noticed is that some people may use a dialect that sounds similar to another dialect but because of their ethnicity it may be categorized a certain way. For example, people from the south usually have the same dialect whether they are black white or any other group. They usually have very strong southern accents, even the white people. It seems tho, that when black people use the dialect it is referred to as AAVE but when others use the same dialect it is referred to as something else.
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