Identity Flashcards
What did Thornborrow propose
Thornborrow (2004)
4 identities
Master - stable and unchanging (ethnicity gender ect)
Interactional - roles ppl take on when communicating with a specific group
Personal - stable and unique characteristics
Relational - the relationship a person enacts with a particular person in a specific situation
What was Tajfels theory
Tajfel (1979)
A person acts as a member of the group they want to be apart of rather than and individual and gain a sense of pride and confidence
What did Grice propose
Grice (1975)
Maxims
Quantity - informative as required
Quality - are they truthful
Manner - contributions should be perspicious
Relevance - relate to the purpose of the exchange
What did Trudgill propose
Trudgill 1974
Overt prestige - using standard forms in the language- official contexts (divergence)
Covert prestige - using non standard forms (convergence)
What did Sapir- Whorf propose
Whorfianism 1929
The hypothesis linguistic relativity claiming that the structure of a language affects the speakers world view of cognition and thus peoples perception are relative to spoken language
What is implicature
Something the speaker suggests or implies with an utterance even though it is not literally expressed
What is presupposition
An implicit assumption about the world or background belief relating to an utterance
What is a modifier
An optional element in phrase structure or clause structure which modifies the meaning of another element
What is representation
The production of the meaning of the concepts issues and ideas in our minds through language
To convey personal identity
Who you are as a person (unchangeable) how you wish to be identified
To convey social identity
Who they are in terms of the groups which they belong
Social/ cultural and contextual factors
Factors that may effect someones identity- such as lifestyle (socially) or ethnicity (personally) or where they are during the transcripts (context)
What is Rosch (1975) Prototype theory
Our world is organised by idealised cognitive models; where words do not fully capture the whole complexity of reality
Linguistic anthropology Kroskrity(2000)
Identity is not given but actively produced by the social identity they are portraying however doesn’t take into account some identities are imposed
Types of register (situational linguistics)
Static register - never changes (lords prayer)
Formal register - formal settings (impersonal)
Consultative register - standard (professional discourse/jargon)
Casual register- peers and friends (slang)
Intimate register - private