Dell Hymes paradigm Speaking, is a wonderful way to assess, as well as organize a case study. Each letter in this paradigm represents a word in which furthers the investigation into the case study. The first letter is S, which stands for setting. It was sophomore year in college, and I was so excited to get back to school and live with Jess again. This year all of us would be living together. What could …showed first 75 words of 2162 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2162 total…we lived changed slightly. Having Lee living with us reproduced our social world, changing from the way that we were accustomed to. In closing, this case study opened my eyes to the behaviors of my self, as well as others in the response to living with someone different than ourselves. I viewed the way we accommodated our language, as well as changed our social dialect and realized how interesting those discoveries turned out to be.