All 5 Uses of
dialect
in
The Joy Luck Club
- She spoke Mandarin slightly blurred with a Shanghai dialect.
Chpt 2 *dialect = regional variety of a language
- They speak in their special language, half in broken English, half in their own Chinese dialect.†
Chpt 2
- I was grateful to hear her voice, to discover we both spoke Mandarin, although her dialect was coarse-sounding.†
Chpt 19
- So we were shy at first, your father and I, neither of us able to speak to each other in our Chinese dialects.†
Chpt 19dialects = regional varieties of a language
- Aiyi and my father speak the Mandarin dialect from their childhood, but the rest of the family speaks only the Cantonese of their village.†
Chpt 20dialect = regional variety of a language
Definition:
a regional variety of a language
A dialect can use a different accent, vocabulary, and grammar than other dialects of the same language.