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Ethnicity Theory Flashcards

Varieties Revision

1
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Ethnicity refers to one’s family _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, linking one historically and culturally to places where one’s antecedents lived.

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heritage

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Pidgins and creoles are languages that draw their lexis largely from one language, but 3 things from several others. What are those 3 things?

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Syntax, grammar and phonology

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Many Pidgins and Creoles are based on European languages in areas that have been _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ by European nations.

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Colonised

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Communities start by creating a pidgin, which many people speak but which isn’t any community’s _ _ _ _ _ language.

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First

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If a pidgin survives, what does it become?

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A creole

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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ often provides the right conditions for the development of a pidgin.

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Colonisation

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If two speech communities meet and their need to communicate lasts long enough for it to be worthwhile, usually one of the languages will become _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and will be used by both communities.

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Dominant

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A creole is the first, second or third language of a community?

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First

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A pidgin is a language that has grown up between communities that do not have a mutually _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ language.

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intelligible

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What does intelligible mean?

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Easily understood?

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Pidgins most often serve the function of a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ or trading language

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Lingua franca

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A lingua franca is most usually concerned with what?

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Routine communication between different communities e.g. buying and selling

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What does ‘my shackup’ mean in Bamboo English?

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Unmarried exclusive sexual partner

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What does ‘cut a chogy’ mean in Bamboo English?

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Leave, go away

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What does ‘boonies’ mean in Bamboo English?

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The remote countryside

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Much of the lexis in Bamboo English was concerned with _ _ _ _ _ _ _ items with which the soldiers were not provided by the army; for example drugs and prostitution.

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illicit

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17
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Bamboo English is an English-based pidgin that grew up on which continent in the 1960s?

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South East Asia

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A pidgin isn’t anyone’s _ _ __ _ _ language.

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first

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Once the pidgin is used as a speech communities first language, what does it become?

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A creole

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It was the policy of the colonial government to divide _ _ _ _ _ _ communities

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Speech

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The slaves developed pidgin languages in order to c _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ with each other.

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Communicate

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The _ _ _ _ _ of these languages tended to be drawn from English because it was the only language that they had in common.

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lexis

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The grammar and phonology was often drawn from _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and the original African languages of the workers.

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English

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Jamaican creole is also known as which other names?

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Patwa or Patois

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25
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What is the first language of most people in Jamaica?

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Patwa or Patois

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The p _ _ _ _ _ _ _ available in a pidgin have to be present in all of the speakers’ original languages.

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Phonemes

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27
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What does ‘kraikrai’ mean in Kamtok?

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Cry continuously

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What term would we use for ‘kraikrai’?

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Reduplication

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In Kamtok, they would say ‘Di tu big pepa’ instead of ‘the two big newspaper’. What is this an example of?

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Not marking plural nouns

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30
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Creolised and Pidginised Englishes tend not to distinguish between g _ _ _ _ _ _ in either nouns or pronouns

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Genders

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31
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How long have most Creoles been in contact with Standard English for?

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Up to three hundred years

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32
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What is the prestige form in Jamaica?

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Standard English

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33
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Because Standard English is the most prestige form in Jamaica, it means that, over time, Patwa is becoming increasingly like Standard English. What do we call this process?

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Decreolisation

34
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A young Jamaican schoolboy may speak reasonably Standard English in school and then adopt Creole features as they grow older. This shows that speakers adopt a position on the continuum according to what?

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Context

35
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From the late 1940s, which people began to move to the UK, many speaking a language on the Creole continuum?

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Caribbean people

36
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Which variety decreolised and their children’s language decreolised further, after living in Britain for some time?

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Black British English

37
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‘I’m goinng home, innit’ is an example of which BBE feature?

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Universal tag question

38
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‘She eat apples’ is an example of which BBE feature?

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Omission of the +s inflection from third person singular verbs in the present tense

39
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‘Two apple’ is an example of which BBE feature?

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Unmarked plural noun

40
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‘He good’ is an example of which BBE feature?

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Omission of the copular verb ‘to be’ in sentences with complement phrases

41
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From the 1960s, contact between Jamaican-British people and their white (usually working class) neighbours in school, at work and socially, lead to what?

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‘Crossing’

42
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What does the term ‘crossing’ mean?

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This is when Jamaican-British people and their white (usually working class) neighoburs are exposed to both Jamaican English and Cockney and style shift between the two varieties.

43
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Style shifting between Jamaican English and Cockney (ie crossing) began to gain which type of prestige?

A

Covert Prestige

44
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Style shifting between Jamaican English and Cockney (ie crossing) was beginning to be used by which other people?

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Some white and Asian people who didn’t have a black peer group

45
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Professor Ben Rampton (King’s London) says that: “Creole was widely seen as cool, tough and _ _ _ _ to use. It was associated with assertiveness, verbal resourcefulness, competence in heterosexual relationships and opposition to authority” (2010)

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good

46
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Professor Ben Rampton (King’s London) says that: “Creole was widely seen as cool, tough and good to use. It was associated with _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , verbal resourcefulness, competence in heterosexual relationships and opposition to authority” (2010)

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Assertiveness

47
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Professor Ben Rampton (King’s London) says that: “Creole was widely seen as cool, tough and good to use. It was associated with assertiveness, verbal resourcefulness, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in heterosexual relationships and opposition to authority” (2010)

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Competence

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Multicultural Urban English (MUE) also known as Multicultural London English, is a variety of English that combines elements of what?

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Creole, Standard British English and influences from many other languages.

49
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What does MUE stand for?

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Multicultural Urban English

50
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MUE is associated with Black British speakers but is used by?

A

A much wider demographic.

51
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MUE varies from region to region with _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ varieties in Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol.

A

Different

52
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MUE is strongly associated with which people?

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Younger people

53
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MUE is different from other regional varieties as it doesn’t have u _ _ _ _ _ _ _ characteristics shared by its speakers

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Uniform

54
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MUE has a _ _ _ _ of characteristics from which speakers draw a number depending on age, ethnicity, region and identity.

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Pool

55
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The specific features _ _ _ _ _ from place to place with MUE speakers in East London using some features more typically than MUE speakers in South London or in Luton or Nottingham.

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Shift

56
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The local _ _ _ _ _ _ population has an impact on the features used in MUE.

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Ethnic

57
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What does ‘bare’ mean in MUE?

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Many (adjective) Very (adverb)

58
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What does ‘beef’ mean in MUE?

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Disagreement or conflict (noun)

59
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What does ‘choong’ mean in MUE?

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Attractive (adjective)

60
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What does ‘ting’ mean in MUE?

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Thing (noun) Girlfriend (noun)

61
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What does ‘endz’ mean in MUE?

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Neighbourhood (noun)

62
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Is MUE h-dropping or non h-dropping?

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Non h-dropping

63
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One grammatical feature of MUE is when they say ‘mandem’ - What term can we use for this?

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Dem as a plural marker

64
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How would a speaker of MUE say ‘ask’?

A

a:ks

65
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How would a speaker of MUE say ‘price’?

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pra:s

66
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Man went to Hackney’ ‘Dem man gone’ ‘Us man leaving’ are all examples of what from MUE?

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‘Man’ as a pronoun.

67
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In MUE, the following sentence is common: ‘The woman who be in the office’ - What can you say about the verb ‘be’

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Copular ‘Be’ used consistently before complements

68
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What is Code Mixing?

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Occasionally inserting words or phrases from one language into another.

69
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What is Code Switching?

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Moving from one language into another for a longer period.

70
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Code switching and mixing can also be a way of signalling a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ with an interlocutor

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Relationship

71
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Which theorist argued that often, of the two languages used, one is a ‘we code’ and one is a ‘they code.’

A

Gupertz

72
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‘We code’, outlined by Gupertz, is when speakers of a minority language use one language to acknowledge their _ _ _ _ _ _ heritage with others

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Shared

73
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Which theory suggests that speakers move between codes depending on where and to whom they are speaking?

A

Domain theory

74
Q

In which domain, might a British Punjabi Muslim speak Arabic?

A

At Mosque

75
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In which domain, might a British Punjabi Muslim speak English?

A

In school

76
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In which domain, might a British Punjabi Muslim speak Punjabi?

A

At home

77
Q

In which domain might a British Ashkenazi Jew speak Yiddish?

A

Home

78
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In which domain might a British Ashkenazi Jew speak English?

A

At School

79
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In which domain might a British Ashkenazi Jew speak Hebrew?

A

Synagogue

80
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In which domain might an MUE speaker use Standard English?

A

In School

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