Ethnicity Flashcards
Ethnicity
Relates to aspects of a persons cultural identity.
Nationality
Which nation you belong to, more of a legal concept.
What Factors does ethnicity relate to?
Who you see as your community e.g. religious beliefs, language usage and family relationships.
What is Creole?
A stable natural language that develops from the simplifying and mixing of different language at a fairly sudden point in time.
Define Patios:
Language of the home; English is something children learn at school.
Pitts: creole
Resistance identity:
Stated that young black people who felt ignored by society might see their use of creole as a state of resistance.
Non Standard Pronouns: Jamaican English vs standard English
Mi Run = I run
Dem run = They run
Non standard use of verbs: Jamaican Creole.
Verb “to be”: “she be pretty”
Not always marked for tense: “he’ll tell me dat yesterday”
Features of Pidgin:
No ones native language, reduced grammar and vocabulary, mixing of language, learn it orally/ not written.
Features of creole:
Native speakers, fully developed vocabulary and grammar, mixed language, has a writing system.
Ben Rampton: Creole.
He said “Creole was widely seen as cool, tough and good to use. Associated with assertiveness and opposition to authority”
As early as 1960s Creole was being used by urban youngsters who didn’t have a black peer group - code mixing.
Cheshire (2008)
Identified new forms of English emerging from London’s inner city and taking root far beyond - MLE
Examples of Lexis in MLE
Mandem, Bare and Ends
Phonological features of MLE
Diphthong vowel sounds: “face” “/Fes/“
Lexical features of MLE
Innit as a tag question.
