ANT253H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Computer-Mediated Communication, English Language In England, Dialectology
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Essay due a week later: hand it into the anthropology department. Language changes as you go from place to place: or move in different social environments, if you go to britain still recognizable english but different from what we speak. There are dialects within canada geographical dialect: ex. English in toronto and newfoundland: own grammatical and lexical variant spoken by a community of speakers. From which the others are derivatives: tends to be true, due to politics, france language spoken in paris = standard language of the country. Because paris has most power: florence, italy political and economic power, birth of great writing, not a matter of aesthetics matter of historical accident. English is now spoken in countries that were not traditionally english speaking different versions of english: ex. American: color, odor, center, program, analyze, recognize. British and canadian: colour, odour, centre, programme, analyse, recognise. American/canadian: mail, gasoline, tv, friend, elevator, subway. British: post, petrol, telly, mate, lift, underground.
