paper today. And I think I should just eat shit and die. The questions were like so bloody cheem and so there were and too many points to ponder upon and just too many questions to answer within 2 hours. This is the kind of paper that You look at it and you don't even know what it is talking about or what the question is asking. There are about a million layers of meanings in a sentence and that's why I HATE sociology becos I can never look beneath the surface of the question with some imagination and answer the question. Kenasai. Granted they are the 'application' type. But then how do you apply when you don't even know what it is talking about???? Tutorial also like that, the type of questiona that are asked is the type that even Karl Marx wouldn't have an iota of idea what they are asking. Nobody in class ever gets what the question is actually asking.
For example:
The question: Accents closer to standard pronounciation tend to be more highly regarded than localized accents. IN industrial societies, universal education and mass media make the standard accessible to all strata of society. Yet dialect persist, why?
my answer: Because people use dialects and non-standard variations to show solidarity among people of the same speech community. (simple right? make sense right?)
But then hor what the question is actually asking, according to the tutor, WHy is there differences in usage patterns of language?
Wah siao who go and link here link there and twist the question until like that?
Then the more or less correct answer is
Because a idea of a "standard" language is a ideologically laden. It is a real concept, but not an objective one. Hence, there is no clear boundary in standard language, because acquiring a language is an ongoing process of acculturation. (My insert before I fully understood what the question meant)There will always be deviation from the "standard" form, as people meet, form new networks, migrat etc. Hence there is no purely linguistic justification of what is a a dialect.
Go one big round just to say because there is no such thing. Think I'm so free issit??? Crazy Kukunaden
I feel soooo devasted. SO depressed. This is only my first paper and it's horrible. And horrible not becos I didn't study or prepare enough, but simply because I'm not cheem enough. Sian. I should just go online shopping on Amazon.com for the rest of the exam period. It's like losing the air campaign 1st step into the Gulf War. I'm sure if the Air campaigns of the UN coalition was twarted by the Republican guard, the ground troops will feel as demoralized as me lor. Sian~~~
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
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