Ethnicity Flashcards
Hewitt 1986
In his book, white talk, black talk. Hewitt present his research on the relations between 70 13 to 17-year-old black and white teenagers in South London. he found there was a strong link between languages and ethnic identity.
Sebba 1993
A professor of English language who identified black cockney in the 1980s.
A Creol English Caribbean
Pitt’s 2012
Pitts identified a further language shift in young black English speakers. The youth felt mainstream society was ignoring them, causing the language to create a resistance identity
(a resistance identity is one that goes against mainstream culture)
Holmes 2013
People often code switch to show ethnic identities
Sharma 2011
L2 English speaker Anwar used Indian when speaking to a Sri Lankan maid and British when speaking to a cockney person. It depends on context
Cheshire et al 2015
Says that we have many influences on language- multiethnolect
Eg multicultural neighbourhood youths combine elements of different languages
Drummond 2012
Studied Polish speakers bound morpheme -ing and found the speakers who wanted to return to Poland used a non standard form that sounded like the Polish pronunciation to show solidarity to Poland
Pear 1931
People have different perceptions of others based on the accent they speak
Cheshire 2008
Identified a recent form of MLE balled BBE used by youths
Sharma and Ramptom (2015)
In the study they found that Anwar changes his identity multiple times in a conversation, he used more Indian variations when discussing politics showing his language is a tool to align himself with political ideology
Eckerts 2008
Non white dialects are overgeneralised into ethnolects
MLE vocabulary
Ting, blud and bare
MLE grammar
Dem as a plural form and man as a pronoun
MLE discourse
Init as a tag question
MLE phonology
Diphthongs
