LIN 317 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Appalachia, Appalachian Mountains, Sae International
20 Nov 2018
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Appalachia is considered to be the region that follows the appalachian mountain chain in the eastern united states (p. 1) Appalachia is both a real place to those who live there and a sometimes mythic land to outsiders (p. 1) Within any broad geographic region, there are micro communities where speakers enact their social identities through language (p. 2) Everyone has a different perspective on what appalachian english is. The definition of appalachian english tends to rely on environmental, cultural, or socio economic markers that are political, which makes it arbitrary (p. 2) Unspoiled mountains and hills along the appalachian trail. Home of the strange land and peculiar people in thousands of stories, novels, radio, and tv programs. Mountain region of white natives despite its role as a crossroads of indigenous cultures and vast immigrant and african american migrations for centuries. The poster region of welfare and privation. English-only discussions represent a resistance to servicing brown-skinned speakers of second languages.
