Ethnicity Flashcards
1
Q
MLE
A
multicultural london english
young black teenagers
2
Q
features of MLE
A
lexical
- ‘peng’ ‘creps’ ‘fam’
grammatical
- begin sentences with ‘why’ and end with ‘for’
- ‘man’ to replace ‘I’
phonological
- th stopping - th becomes t (‘ting’)
3
Q
kerswill
A
MLE will replace cockney rhyming slang
4
Q
drummond
A
renamed MLE to MUBE (multicultural urban british english) to represent spread to Manchester
5
Q
Harris
A
4 ways to categorise ethnolects
- deficit (something lacking)
-difference (only different, not worse)
- domination (should be oppressed)
- discourse (cannot be defined)
6
Q
khan
A
ethnicity is a central factor influencing a person’s language
