While the “Language & Social Variation” reading gives us a clear definition of concepts and terms, the article “Can one person’s speech be better than another’s?” presents examples, and especially <\/a>many questions. After the readings and our discussion in class, how would you explain and\/or describe “Standard American English”? Is there a “correct” way of speaking\/writing? What does “correct” mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the “Language & Social Variation” reading gives us a clear definition of concepts and terms, the article “Can one person’s speech be better than another’s?” presents examples, and especially many questions. After the readings and our discussion in class, how would you explain and\/or describe “Standard American English”? Is there a “correct” way of speaking\/writing? What does “correct” mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.cunyhumanitiesalliance.org\/ell101fall18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.cunyhumanitiesalliance.org\/ell101fall18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.cunyhumanitiesalliance.org\/ell101fall18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.cunyhumanitiesalliance.org\/ell101fall18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.cunyhumanitiesalliance.org\/ell101fall18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.cunyhumanitiesalliance.org\/ell101fall18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/archive.cunyhumanitiesalliance.org\/ell101fall18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.cunyhumanitiesalliance.org\/ell101fall18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.cunyhumanitiesalliance.org\/ell101fall18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.cunyhumanitiesalliance.org\/ell101fall18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}