Identity

Question 1

Les Parrott

Answer 1

Wearing the right clothes does help form teen identities by ‘expressing affiliation with specific groups’

Question 2

Parrot’s contributory factors:

Answer 2

• ‘through forbidden behaviours’
• ‘through rebellion’
• ‘through idols’
• ‘through cliquish exclusion’

Question 3

Thornborrow

Answer 3

One of the most fundamental ways we have of establishing our identity is through our language choice.

Question 4

William Labov (Martha’s vineyard) 1961

Answer 4

Martha’s Vineyard is a small isolated place that is hard to access. He investigated the use of the diphthongs /au/ and /ai/. Interviewing 69 various people. Found fishermen between 31 and 45 and up, pronounced them like /əu/ and /əi/ to distance themselves from tourists.

Question 5

Mining communities in South Yorkshire:

Answer 5

There were differences in accents only a few miles apart. In the biggest coal seam (Barnsley) the accent was viewed as ‘stronger’ and the further you travelled away it was ‘weaker’