Ethnicity

Question 1

What is a pidgen language?

Answer 1

New language based on a more dominant language, containing similar features

Question 2

What is a creole?

Answer 2

When a pidgin language is learnt as a native language, it becomes a creole

Question 3

What is the significance of windrush?

Answer 3

Empire Windrush brought over 492 people from different colonies. They brought over different language and introduced new pidgins

Question 4

What is black British English

Answer 4

Based on Jamaican Creole, mainly in London

Question 5

What is Rasta talk?

Answer 5

Used by Afro Caribbean’s in Britain

Based on Jamaican creole

Question 6

What are the features of black British English

Answer 6

Copula verb omitted (he good)
‘Be’ used as auxiliary
Plural nouns uninflected
Multiple negation

Question 7

What did Mark Sebba investigate?

Answer 7

Code switching between people of the Jamaican heritage community in London

Question 8

What is MLE

Answer 8

Introduced new vocabulary (bare, beef) 
‘Dem’ as a plural 
‘Innit’ as a tag question
Flattened shortened vowels 
Coincides with the decline of cockney