Global englishes- ethnicity Flashcards
Define ethnicity
A group of people who share a common cultural background or descent
Give 2 limitations of the word ethnicity
-‘ethic’ has now come to mean ‘not white’ for example ethnic foods suggest curry but not fish and chips, the term should refer to everyone as we all have ethnicity
-the term was intended to replace ‘race’ which has negative connotations about racial superiority
-sounds ‘superior’ to some and not to others
Give 3 examples of ethnicities in the UK
irish, jewish, pakistani
How do we get different ethnicities in the UK?
Immigrants settle in cities (especially east london) and where there were concentrations of an ethic group, the English language absorbed influences from the arrivals
define an ethnolect
language associated with a particular ethnic group
define multiethnolect
language that is influenced from a variety of diff languages
What did Becker say as an example of an etholect?
What did she say that could argue against ethnolects?
-African American English is associated with black English people but
-Not all African Americans use AAE and not all AAE speakers are from African-America
Give a limitation of the term ethnolect
It has connotations of having lower status and being less prestige
What are multiethnolects?
A distinctive form of language typically formed in youth communities in working-class neighborhoods that contain influences from a variety of different languages
Where Cheshire say multiethnolects exist?
-Multiethnolects exist in modern urban contexts, especially in Europe where groups of immigrants from different places lived close together
What are creoles and crossings
a person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean.
how did aspects of Jamaican English become embedded in English culture?
-Late 1940s lots of people from the Caribbean arrived in UK
-new forms of English heard in urban areas
-Came to be called Jamaican English even though not all arrivals were from Jamaica —> accent bias
How did the contact between jamaican English and white people grow?
-1960s contact between Jamaican English and white young people inc at work and school meaning people of diff ethnic backgrounds were exposed to each other’s varieties of english
What did the contact between Jamaican English and white people lead to?
-crossing.. it was evident as white people used more traditional lang with white friends but shifted into a lexis influences by Jamaican English when with black friends
Give an example of Jamaican English
-Use of nonstandard English eg. mi run
What is multicultural london English
a dialect that emerged in multicultural areas of London, primarily among young people
blend of linguistic features from various languages and accents, including Jamaican, African English, and Cockney
What did ben Rampton propose?
Contemporary urban vernaculars was a better word for ‘youth language’ ??????????
What did devyani Sharma look at?
listened to punjabi speaking Indians in west London
-analysed recordings and listened for features which have a British or Indian variant
-the frequency of variants depended on who takes part in convo
-Indian variants occurred when speaker was expressing personal things
