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CAPE Exam Question Du e Thursday , October 25   1.    Read the scenario below and answer the questions that follow.   Toni :      That girl Zara jus come to de college standoffish. She playing she ain know how to speak we                  language.  Always talkin like BBC news broadcaster or someting! Cintra :   You jus jealous dat you ain know to talk so sweet. Dat is why de teachers like to call on she                to speak.  Dey want we to follow she example.   Toni:       Not me! I ain changing me language to suit nobody! a)                   State 2 differing attitudes to Zara’s language in the dialogue . (2 marks)   Two differing attitudes in Zara's languag...

Creole Characteristics of Creole English Consonants ü     In Creole English the th in the words thief and teeth would be pronounced like a t; ü     Loss of s at the beginning of words like strong, string, and split.   Morphology (word-endings) ü     Creole English shows much less dependence on morphology. Many of the grammatical inflections which characterize standard English are either not part of Creole English or are inconsistently used.                         Double marking for comparative and superlative are both natural in Creole English.      Big (more) bigger        (most) biggest              /           tall     (more) ...

As mentioned previously, all languages are dialects, according to linguists. But in the Caribbean when we say dialect, patois etc. we are talking about languages that are not Standard English or Standard French; e.g. broken english or broken french.  Now in the past when Africans or other people from other countries were trading with Europeans or any other foreign group, they had to find a quick way of communicating, so they used the language below called pidgin. Pidgin   The term ‘pidgin’ (believed to have been derived from the Chinese pronunciation of the English word ‘business’) “refers to a system of communication that has grown up among people who do not share a common language but need to trade or conduct business. Pidgins are unstable, have a limited vocabulary and grammatical structure and narrow range of functions. A pidgin is not a native language, but a creative adaptation of natural languages with structures and rules of its own.       Creole   ...

Many people do not view dialect as a language like standard English? Well, I believe it is a language even though it does not have a lot of rules like the standard. Now first of all, linguists are people who study language and they believe that all languages are dialects, whether they be Standard English, French or even what we call dialect or broken English. However, Hazel Simmons McDonald et al (1997) in Writing in English noted that even though the linguist considers all varieties as dialects, the standard nevertheless is “a special variety.” It is accorded special privileges and as“a result of its use as an instrument of mass education, it will have acquired a greater amount of rigidity/uniformity to ensure wider comprehension, than any other variety.” (page 61)   Standard English has more priviliges because it is the language largely used in schools, at work (for example in the banks and at Courts). In this case dialect refers to 'broken English', also known as Creole or...

Characteristics of Language   Ø     Language is Uniquely Human : Lelia Lord et al (2012) in Cape Communication Studies examined some key words in anthropologist Edward Sapir’s definition of language: “ Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of a system of voluntarily produced symbols .” Lord et al noted, “ Only humans have the physical capability to pronounce the wide variety of sounds that are used in the world’s languages . The human brain capacity also provides the ability to deal with complex issues, to reason and to plan for the future. Even though higher-order apes can be taught to recognize words and human sounds through rigorous training, they never achieve language more sophisticated than that of a two-year-old.” As Veronica Simon and Sandra Osborne (2009) highlighted in CAPE Communication Studies , “While parrots and parakeets can be taught to reproduce sound sequences, they cannot be...