tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416616238798541625.post1810465206320077294..comments2023-10-30T08:18:35.320-07:00Comments on Sixteen Months in Dominica: Accents and the like.Mark and Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11895999240850435498noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416616238798541625.post-13746085733264598122011-02-20T21:27:55.056-08:002011-02-20T21:27:55.056-08:00That was me, Christine by the way, don't reall...That was me, Christine by the way, don't really get how this whole profile thing works.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416616238798541625.post-74945667575134968162011-02-20T21:26:09.978-08:002011-02-20T21:26:09.978-08:00Here's a little tid-bit I learned from my intr...Here's a little tid-bit I learned from my intro Anth class: Apparently, dialect, or "code-switching" is actually quite common in historically colonized countries, as well as for immigrants to countries with a different cultural dialect. I think it can be either conscious (as it would be in the case of the decolonising countries as a show of defiance in maintaining their native dialect) as well as unconscious, using the native dialect to communicate with their cultural peers, and the "coloniser", or in this case, the American dialect when surrounded by a more Americanised environment like that private school. So there you go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com