Entry #12: Three videos and Yule's threory
I will take the next three videos and, using Yule’s key concepts, analyze them to highlight the underlying situation. The concepts that I’m referring to are accent, dialect, and regional dialect.
In this video, the character from The Pink Panther has to learn to speak in more Standard English accent. He, naturally, produces English with a very strong French accent, because of his place of origin. The difficulty of producing Standard English leads to the comical situation presented in the video.
Here, each of the students presents a different problem regarding the correct pronunciation or the grammar of Standard English. The first one, who opens the sketch, states that he has troubles with his grammar. The second student agrees, but he mispronounces the words “grammar” and “spell”. This may be due to his sociolect (he seems to be from the suburbs of some great city, like New York), which in Yule’s terms, is "a type of social dialect in reference to the economic social class". The next speaker, the blonde girl, has problems mixing metaphors, as it is pointed out by the first character. The last male character to speak has, as he says, “troubles with [his] emphasis”. All this can be seen as variations in dialect, as dialect, according to Yule, is a term used to "describe features of grammar and vocabulary, as well as aspects of pronunciation".
This last video takes a humorously view on the stereotypical situation of regional dialects. It is assumed that no one will understand the subtitled character, as he comes from a very distinct area (Iraq) that have stereotyped pronunciations associated with it. It is often the case, states Yule that "the existence of regional dialects is often a source of humour for those living in different regions".
Bibliography
Yule, G. (2010). The Study of Language. UK; CUP.
In this video, the character from The Pink Panther has to learn to speak in more Standard English accent. He, naturally, produces English with a very strong French accent, because of his place of origin. The difficulty of producing Standard English leads to the comical situation presented in the video.
Here, each of the students presents a different problem regarding the correct pronunciation or the grammar of Standard English. The first one, who opens the sketch, states that he has troubles with his grammar. The second student agrees, but he mispronounces the words “grammar” and “spell”. This may be due to his sociolect (he seems to be from the suburbs of some great city, like New York), which in Yule’s terms, is "a type of social dialect in reference to the economic social class". The next speaker, the blonde girl, has problems mixing metaphors, as it is pointed out by the first character. The last male character to speak has, as he says, “troubles with [his] emphasis”. All this can be seen as variations in dialect, as dialect, according to Yule, is a term used to "describe features of grammar and vocabulary, as well as aspects of pronunciation".
This last video takes a humorously view on the stereotypical situation of regional dialects. It is assumed that no one will understand the subtitled character, as he comes from a very distinct area (Iraq) that have stereotyped pronunciations associated with it. It is often the case, states Yule that "the existence of regional dialects is often a source of humour for those living in different regions".
Bibliography
Yule, G. (2010). The Study of Language. UK; CUP.
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