tailieunhanh - American Voices How Dialects Differ from coast to coast_06

Tham khảo tài liệu 'american voices how dialects differ from coast to coast_06', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 22 Getting Real in the Golden State California Penelope Eckert and Norma Mendoza-Denton 22 Soaking up the rays in southern California. by Jason Stitt. When people think of California English they often recall stereotypes like those made famous by Frank and Moon Unit Zappa in their song Valley Girl circa 1982. Like totally Gag me with a spoon intoned Moon Unit instantly cementing a stereotype of California English as being primarily the province of Valley Girls and Surfer Dudes. But California is not just the land of beaches and blonds. While Hollywood images crowd our consciousness the real California with a population of nearly 34 million is only white most of whom are not blond and don t live anywhere near the beach . For generations California has been home to a large Latino population that today accounts for of the state s total numbers. It has also been home to a large Chinese American and Japanese American population and with the influx in recent years of immigrants from other parts of Asia the state now boasts a large and diverse Asian American population . Most of the sizable African American population in California speaks a form of African American Vernacular English with few traces of surfer dude or valley girl. Each of these groups speaks in a distinctive style providing a rich set of linguistic resources for all inhabitants of the state. Ways of speaking are the outcome of stylistic activities that people engage in collaboratively as they carve out a distinctive place for themselves in the social landscape. In fact linguistic style is inseparable from clothing style hairstyle and lifestyle. No style is made from scratch but is built on the creative use of elements from other styles and California s rich diversity makes the state a goldmine of stylistic activity. In 1941 linguist David DeCamp proclaimed that California English was no different from the English of the East Coast. But over the decades since the 1940s a distinctive .

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