Query Details
| Query Subject: |
American Dialects
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| Author: | Stan Anonby | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Sociolinguistics
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| Subject Language(s): |
English
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| Query: |
Hello All,
I have a question, which came to my mind while watching the TV show "Home Improvements". The show is set in Detroit. Once in a while, there are a group of Caucasian construction people who appear on the show. They talk in what sounds like to me to be a southern accent. This is obviously supposed to be very funny. I'm not American, so I don't understand all the nuances of this. I've got some theories. 1) Uneducated Caucasians in the US talk like Southerners. 2) Caucasians who do manual labor are often Southerners. 3) Americans find it very funny to hear someone talk in a southern dialect on TV. So "Home Improvements" isn't portraying language as it is actually spoken by Caucasian construction workers in Detroit. It's just a put-on for laughs. I realize it's not too easy to explain why something is funny, but does anyone want to give it a shot? Stan Anonby |
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| LL Issue: | 16.1402 | |
| Date posted: | 02-May-2005 | |
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