Sunday, February 26, 2012

Dialect, identity and power

 1) The diction of the narrator is that of an adult and proper but also strangely slightly broken. The sentences are split into short segments.

2) It is implied that it is more broken than the narrator though very similar in some ways

3) The first two songs are working songs and so sung loudly and have strong rhythms

Text 2
1) One would assume Morrison was speaking to the audience if she was giving a Nobel lecture. Then again  she seems to be talking to the world at large though specifically to people of torn countries and politicians.

2) I would describe her use of language as smooth almost poetic with formal English. She uses a wide range of vocabulary with some nice fancy long words.

3) Her language is academic, literary and inventive. Academic in its formality and range of vocabulary and inventive in its poeticism. It is literary in the fact that it is both inventive and academic.

4) Someone's language could be stolen if the words they required to communicate what they mean do not exist and the language no longer fully serves them.

Text 3
1) I understand more than I wish though there are words which I don't understand.

2) The "song" is belongs to a specific type of community though spread out across the world.

3) The "song" is probably written for youths though specifically aimed for youths of a specific community though marketed and performed for a much larger audience. This is done by corporal suits with the desire to make money.

4) The "song" does not go along with a dominant community nor does this specific "song" go directly against it. However, "songs" of its sort often do go directly against a dominant community.

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