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Dialect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos ) is used in two distinct ways, even by scholars of language. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is characteristic of a par...
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Eye dialect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eye dialect is the deliberate use of non-standard spelling to draw attention to pronunciation. There is some disagreement on what constitutes eye dialect and what constitutes phonetic spelling. For s...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on dialect poetry (literature), A remarkable aspect of 20th-century poetry composed in Italy was the proliferation of cultivated poets who rejected what they saw as the pollution, inauthenticity, and debased currency of the national language. ... Italian literature (in Italian literature:
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See also Acculturation; Dialect; Folklore; Humor; Mennonite Studies; Rhymes; Dialect Literature and Speech, German Language; Pennsylvania German; Pennsylvania German Culture; Language Problem...
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Toni Cade Bambara, the possessor of ‘‘one of the finest ears for the nuances of black English,’’ may have revolutionized the use of contemporary African American dialect in literature, introducing it to non-African American audiences in much the same way that Mark Twain brought the dialect of middle America...
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The rabbits of Murton ... HOO THE RABBITS WOR HORRIBLY THRET ... Naw rabbits Aa kept; Bonny dutch rabbits; In a shed nigh the hoos, Snod en' snug.
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Dialect in literature is a helpful tool that an author may use in order to make his or her characters well-rounded. ... Dialect in literature is a helpful tool that an author may use in order to make his or her characters well-rounded. By using a certain dialect for a character, the author is actually telling the reader...
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