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What Did You Just S ay to Me?

What Did You Just S ay to Me?. The Effect of Dialect in “Brown Girl, Brownstones” by Paule Marshall. Brown Girl, Brownstones. DIALECT. The language of a particular district, class, or group of persons. It encompasses the sounds, spelling, grammar,

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What Did You Just S ay to Me?

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  1. What Did You Just Say to Me? The Effect of Dialect in “Brown Girl, Brownstones” by Paule Marshall.

  2. Brown Girl, Brownstones

  3. DIALECT The language of a particular district, class, or group of persons. It encompassesthe sounds, spelling, grammar, and diction employed by a specific people as distinguished from other persons either geographically or socially. It is a major technique of characterization that reveals the social or geographic status of a character.

  4. Clips “I tell yuh, sometime you wun know whether it was the sun or the rum or both had yuh feeling so sweet.” “But where you come outta, nuh? You ain no real-real Bajan man!”

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