Dialect and Dialogue “Thank You Ma’am”
Dialogue Conversations between two or more characters.
Dialect A variety of language used by a certain group of people in a certain region of the world. This involves word choice, grammar and phrases. This is not an accent.
Dialects in America
Examples Someone in the South: “I might can do that.” Someone in the Midwest. “I will do that.”
Appalachian Dialect Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXghKHHzlXQ&feature=related Write down 4-5 words/phrases that the people interviewed use that we in the Midwest do not use.