Friday, September 24, 2010

Friday, September 24

Today, we continued our discussion of code shifting.

We took a look at the "Speech Accent Archive", which shows how different people all over the world speak English. This is located at:
http://accent.gmu.edu/

We also listened to different historical speeches and examined how the speaker changed their language in order to fit the situation. We looked at MLK, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech (link to the audio below):
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

Some classes listened to Barack Obama's Keynote Address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/barackobama2004dnc.htm

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