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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Dialect
		DIALECT A general and technical term for a form of a LANGUAGE : a southern French dialect ; the Yorkshire dialect ; the dialects of the United States ; Their teacher didn't let them speak dialect at school, but they spoke it at home ; It's a dialect word—only the older people use it.
		Dialects are groups of idiolects with a common core of similarities in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.
		Dialectal differences may be relatively slight (as in the dialects of American English), or so great (Italian) that mutual comprehension becomes difficult or impossible.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Dialect (1434 words)

	Language Log: Eye dialect
		It would certainly be useful to have a term for this, and "eye dialect" is a nearly transparent candidate for the purpose.
		Using eye dialect (in the first sense) is a tricky business; no matter what the writer's intent (which might be just to provide local color), it's likely to be understood as expressing contempt, and in any case readers often find it tiresome.
		Using eye dialect (in the second sense) is pretty much by definition a put-down.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/003813.html (331 words)

	Eye dialect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In orthography, eye dialect is the use of non-standard spellings (spellings considered incorrect) to indicate non-standard pronunciations, especially dialectic ones.
		Eye dialect is also found in representations of the speech of various Londoners in Sherlock Holmes stories.
		In defense of literary dialect: A response to Dennis R. Preston.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eye_dialect (592 words)

	Course Description: Dialects and Fiction Writing
		Dialect speech and dialect writing have richly contributed to the breadth, variety, and authenticity of American and English literature.
		This course provides students with informed training in listening with a "good ear" and distinguishing between " eye dialect" and dialect is both accurately and artistically rendered, within an understanding of the tradition of dialect writing in fiction.
		Students keep a journal and research the ways in which writers employ dialect in their fiction as well as what they have to say about such uses, while also developing a facility with dialect in their own fiction writing.
	www.colum.edu /grad_course_descriptions/55-5304.html (112 words)

	Nonstandard dialect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A nonstandard dialect is a dialect that does not have the institutional support or sanction that a standardized dialect has.
		Describing a dialect as "nonstandard" is not to imply that the dialect is incorrect or inferior.
		As a border-case, a nonstandard dialect may even have its own written form, although it's then to be assumed that the orthography is unstable and/or unsanctioned, and that it is not orderly supported by governmental or educational institutions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nonstandard_dialect (168 words)

	AllRefer Health - Uncontrollable Eye Movements (Back and Forth Eye Movements, Involuntary Eye Movements, Nystagmus, ...
		Uncontrollable eye movements are involuntary, rapid, and repetitive movement of the eyes.
		The involuntary eye movements of nystagmus are caused by abnormal function in the areas of the brain that control eye movements.
		Because control of eye movements is affected by input from the labyrinth (the part of the inner ear that senses movement and position), inner ear disorders such as Meniere's disease can also lead to acquired nystagmus.
	health.allrefer.com /health/eye-movements-uncontrollable-info.html (661 words)

	eye - Definition, Synonyms, and Reference from OnPedia.com
		naked eye - the eye unaided by any optical instrument that alters the power of vision or alters the apparent size or distance of objects; "it is not safe to look directly at the sun with the naked eye"
		eye muscle, ocular muscle - one of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball
		eye - an area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm"
	www.onpedia.com /dictionary/Eye (939 words)

	eye dialect - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Eye (anatomy), light-sensitive organ of vision in animals.
		The eyes of various species vary from simple structures that are capable only of...
		The Chinese are believed to have been the first to use needles made of steel, and the Moors are credited with bringing them to Europe.
	encarta.msn.com /eye+dialect.html (144 words)

	A History and Analysis of the 'l33t' Dialect \| Sasha Dyck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		There is too often a prejudice associated with the word "dialect." One may think of backwoods, illiterate folk busy mangling the common tongue of the urban intelligentsia who speak "the real language." Conversely, rural speakers may see outsiders as speaking a "hoity-toity" version of the language "to put on airs" and make themselves seem superior.
		Dialects are important because they help us know with which linguistic groups to identify.
		As Robins states, a dialect, when used "in appropriate occasions by the individuals concerned helps to give the 'insiders' an enhanced sense of group unity and to distinguish them form the 'outsiders,' to whom such modes of discourse are unfamiliar and in part unknown."[15]
	www.goshen.edu /~sashamd/l33t (2245 words)

	Sample Entries
		Indeed, the primary purpose of a literary dialect was not to create an accurate record of regional speech but rather to define the social position, or perhaps the social divergence, of fictional characters.
		For a northern audience unfamiliar with the actual dialect, Murfree's technique may have contributed to a mistaken impression that her representation of speech was more realistic than it actually was.
		Fox was instrumental in establishing the notion that Appalachian English was a particularly archaic dialect as a consequence of extreme geographic isolation.
	www.utpress.org /Appalachia/EntryDisplay.php?EntryID=026 (1973 words)

	gonna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Oh, and "oughta" /ot@/ (where /o/ represents the "aw" sound of "caught", "law", and "Dawn" in Midwestern American), from "ought to" = "should", is also an accepted eye dialect spelling, as is "hafta" /haeft@/ for "have to" = "must".
		A construction of the same sort is "used to" /yust@/, a frequentative past imperfect auxiliary, but eye dialect spellings of it differ, no doubt because of different intuitions about folk phonics.
		Eye dialect is largely used to represent speech in narratives, and often carries the (author's) presumption that the speaker is illiterate or of a lower class.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jlawler/aue/gonna.html (627 words)

	Eye Dialect - Edited by R.J. McCaffery : Zine O Rama : Pif - August 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The current Eye Dialect (No. 2) contains what are surely some of the oddest poems ever to grace a lit 'zine: Mary Ladd's "Martian" poems, which feature the adventures (if that's the right word) of astronaut/colonist Helga on a future, inhabited Mars.
		Not surprisingly, nothing in the rest of Eye Dialect's poetry is nearly so idiosyncratic as Ladd's work; nor is there anything particularly worth seeking out — which is not to suggest that the poems here are uniformly tedious or hackneyed.
		Unfortunately, Poems like Park's — poems that begin with an interesting premise or image but which fail under the weight of one or more significant flaws — are the rule rather than the exception here.
	www.pifmagazine.com /2000/08/z_eye_dialect.php3 (518 words)

	dialectlit.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		"The Dialect of the Mississippi Negro in Literature." Ph.D. Diss., University of Mississippi, 1939.
		Mark W. "Dialect Variation in The Sound and the Fury : A Study of Faulkner's Use of Black English." The Mississippi Quarterly 41 (Summer 1988): 403-19.
		Peterson, P.W. "The Misuses and Dangers of Literary Dialect as Linguistic Data." Papers in Linguistics 1974-77: A Collection of M.A. Papers from Students in the Linguistics Department of Northeastern Illinois University.
	gemini.tntech.edu /~aslotkin/dialectlit.html (759 words)

	Eye Weekly - That Bajan beat - 02.10.05
		"It's scary to take on a dialect," says Codrington, 27, who also happens to be appearing in 'Da Kink in My Hair, the joyous ode to fl women's tresses that's a hit at The Princess of Wales Theatre.
		Codrington did a lot of the dialect writing on her feet, improvising out loud and being variously recorded.
		Bajan is mostly a spoken dialect, and different groups write it differently when it's written at all.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_02.10.05/arts/castiron.html (929 words)

	EYE DIALECT. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
		is created by deliberately misspelling words to suggest in writing a Nonstandard or dialectal pronunciation: wimmin for women and gonna for going to are examples of eye dialect.
		Both these spellings reflect the actual sounds of Standard speech, gonna of course rather literally transcribing speech at a lower level, whereas wimmin suggests by its spelling that the speaker is too uncultivated to be able to spell it correctly anyway.
		In fiction, drama, and dramatic poetry, eye dialect is frequently used to suggest the actual sounds of a particular person’s speech, flaws and all.
	www.bartleby.com /68/98/2398.html (159 words)

	EDSITEment Lesson - Printer Friendly
		Their Eyes Were Watching God, often acclaimed Hurston's masterpiece, is perhaps the richest beneficiary of her work as a folklorist: its evocation of picking in the jook joint, playing the dozens, and petitioning root doctors offers a compelling synthesis of ethnological reality and lively characterization and setting.
		Ultimately, students should see that transcription approaches and eye dialect are judgment calls on the part of folklorists and authors, who must balance readability with local color/accuracy.
		Having a student read the eye dialect transcription of a song she hasn't heard and then playing the song to see how close the two pronunciations and readings is a great way of getting students to think about the relationship between oral and written language and literature.
	edsitement.neh.gov /printable_lesson_plan.asp?id=407 (3249 words)

	Do You Speak American . For Educators . Curriculum . College . Style \| PBS
		Some people control only one dialect of their language, but they, too, shift among different styles of speaking, often depending on whether the situation is more formal or less formal (for more information on this, click
		Jack Chambers’ essay, “Talk the Talk,” offers a brief history of the fears people have expressed about television’s influence on language and some words that have been introduced (briefly) into English from television, as well as an explanation of why television is not a threat to language diversity in the United States.
		A study of how British teenagers in a multi-ethnic community include features of one another’s dialects or languages in their own speech, and so rework the boundaries between groups.
	www.pbs.org /speak/education/curriculum/college/style (4733 words)

	Norfolk England Dialect Orthography
		presentation of the nose-knows distinction in the dialect.
		dialect, the vowels /íë/ and /èë/ have merged as /e:/: the lexical sets of
		Dialect /e:/ pronunciation is remembered as a dialectal stereotype, its
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Acres/5564/dialectrudgill.html (1747 words)

	Brillo Magazine, Issue Number 2, "A Bug in the Wetware." Extra Abrasive. Buggin' in and Out
		The crux of my argument is that the function (possibly because it exists in cyberspace, but more likely because it attempts to visually represent otherness) relies too heavily on eye dialect, a system employed by many artists and writers to orthographically (mis)represent the phonetic nuances of vernacular English.
		owever, the use of eye dialect, and a healthy dose of sociolinguistic ignorance has permitted a host of bugs disguised as either cyberjokes, or unnoticed as normative forms for an African American Vernacular English (AAVE).
		Thus it exploits the worst aspects of eye dialect.
	www.brillomag.net /No2/email.htm (961 words)

	Hamlet Haven: Metadrama
		While The Mousetrap succeeds in provoking Claudius, the closet scene is "a continuation of the play within the play in so far as it is now Gertrude's turn to reveal her guilt" (100).
		This article analyzes Hamlet to discern Shakespeare’s “comparison between the eye and the ear as the two faculties by which sense data are transmitted to the reason” (299).
		A collaboration of the two senses must exist for the success of reason because, alone, the ear is prone to “malignant” information and the eye suffers “incomplete or ineffectual” information (302).
	www.hamlethaven.com /metadrama.html (4172 words)

	eye definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		The eye is an approximately spherical organ with light-sensitive rod and cone cells in the retina, which is responsible for converting light into impulses that are transmitted to the brain for interpretation.
		He took his eye off the prisoners at the wrong moment.
		have eyes in the back of your head to be aware of what is happening when unable to see it (informal)usually used in negative statements
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861610061 (500 words)

	Article Archive of Just About Write
		Dialectologists, those who study dialects, have discovered that the writing errors that tend to irritate readers the most are what the experts call "dialect difference." Four out of five readers report that reading representations of heavy dialect is extremely bothersome.
		Dialect is "heard" though the reading of it, and if reading it is a slow, laborious nightmare, you'll lose your reader.
		For those readers who have an ear and an eye for dialect and accent, waffling by the author is noticeable.
	www.justaboutwrite.com /A_Archive_Uses-Abuses-Dialect.html (3072 words)

	Dialect and Vernacular Thread (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Subject: T/Q: Dialect and Vernacular (I) We had a robust response to Thomas Clark's request for works of fiction highlighting features of dialect and vernacular, especially African American vernacular.
		Zora Neale Hurston's _Their Eyes Were Watching God_ is an excellent example of a polyvocal novel: the frame narrator speaks standard English, while the first-person narrator uses African-American dialect.
		She argues, correctly I think, that generally the narrator or the narrative voice speaks a middle-class standard which has the effect of distancing a reader from the immediacy and often pain of the working-class speaker.
	www.georgetown.edu /tamlit/collab_bib/dialect_thread.html (1345 words)

	Do You Speak American . For Educators . Curriculum . High School . Style \| PBS
		Students develop an understanding of and respect for diversity in language use, patterns, and dialects across cultures, ethnic groups, geographic regions, and social roles.
		Johnstone visit a local novelty shop and discuss some of the words and pronunciations that Pittsburghers feel separate Yinzers (locals) from outsiders Not all of the words and pronunciations identified as Pittsburghese are unique to that dialect.
		Some people control only one dialect of their language, but they, too, shift among different styles of speaking, often depending on whether the situation is more formal or less formal (for more information on this, click here).
	www.pbs.org /speak/education/curriculum/high/style (5034 words)

	bluest5
		Linguists call this "eye dialect," or phonetic (mis)spellings signalling "difference," but not necessarily enhancing "realism."(11) Holton suggests that the employment of eye dialect also signals an author's "patronizing" attitude toward a character; to go further, the use of eye dialect to represent Black English could be construed, in certain circumstances, as racist.
		Morrison spells out her reasoning in Playing in the Dark for avoiding this technique of eye dialect, discussing "how the dialogue of fl characters is construed as an alien, estranging dialect made deliberately unintelligible by spellings contrived to defamiliarize it" (Playing, p.
		Morrison allows her character to speak the "language of the oppressor," perhaps because she does not need to employ fl dialect or Black English to prove his flness; white writers attempting the same might be laying themselves open to the criticism that they rely on the master standard to represent their character as intelligent.
	www.geocities.com /tarbaby2007/bluest5.html (5341 words)

	Eye Weekly - Back in black - 10.07.04
		As one of their famous fellow New Yorkers once quipped, it's déjà vu all over again.
		And this is what you get for your efforts: hotels become your home, the five minutes of free pay-per-view porn you get on the TV constitute a long-term relationship and, what's more, the only people you have time to get acquainted with are paid to print your words out of context.
		After all, Interpol don't just dress like gentlemen, they behave as such, too -- and true gentlemen wouldn't dare abandon what brought them to the dance.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_10.07.04/music/interpol.html (1052 words)

	Lhasa Dialect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It is a socially prestigious dialect, spoken by the educated.
		There are three main dialects of Tibetan which are the U-TSANG dialect, KHAM dialect and AMDO dialect.
		The average altitude of the Tibetan Plateau is 4500 meters high from sea level.
	www.ling.hawaii.edu /~uhdoc/Lhtibetan/LhasaDialect.html (114 words)

	Eye Dialect?
		non-respectful or condescending representation of dialect, opposed to
		in which 'the convention violated is one of the eyes, not of the ear'
		pronunciation spelling, but who did not use eye dialect.
	www.vocaboly.com /forums/ptopic2831.html (2661 words)

	EYE DIALECT. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
		is created by deliberately misspelling words to suggest in writing a Nonstandard or dialectal pronunciation: wimmin for women and gonna for going to are examples of eye dialect.
		Both these spellings reflect the actual sounds of Standard speech, gonna of course rather literally transcribing speech at a lower level, whereas wimmin suggests by its spelling that the speaker is too uncultivated to be able to spell it correctly anyway.
		In fiction, drama, and dramatic poetry, eye dialect is frequently used to suggest the actual sounds of a particular person’s speech, flaws and all.
	www.bartelby.com /68/98/2398.html (159 words)

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