Weird Ways People Talk

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This video entitled, "Weird Ways People Talk," attempts at humor by mocking several different North American dialects of English. In so much that he can faithfully articulate English off the standard variant, he creates a divide between certain mocked groups and raises the so-called standard on a pedestal. In a similar light to mock-Spanish, these variants he mimics can be the origins of stereotypically thought.

Posted by McKale Wiley on May 11, 2017

Tags:
Perceptual Dialectology;
American English;
Indexicality

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