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Language and Ethnicity Flashcards

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What is multiethnolect?

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A variety combining features from a range of languages within a multi ethnic/cultural context

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What is a heritage language?

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A language spoken at home which isn’t dominant in that society

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What is intersectionality?

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Social categories all overlapping; ethnicity is interconnected with all other categories

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What is essentialism?

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The idea that a characteristic is inherited and fixed, not adopted or variable

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What is constructivism?

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The notion of being able to adopt certain characteristics to construct identity

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What is performativity?

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The power of language to effect change in the world; language function as a form of social action which can involve the creation of identities

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What is resistance identity and who suggested it?

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  • John Pitts
  • Noticed a shift among young black speakers who reported feeling that society was ignoring them towards a linguistic identity that went against the mainstream
  • “A move from sounding like Ian Wright to Bob Marley”
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What is multicultural London English?

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  • Multi ethnolect used mostly by young people in London
  • Perceived as ‘ethically neutral’
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What are linguistic innovators and who suggested this?

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  • Kerswill and Cheshire
  • The English of adolescents in London was changing due to multi ethnic social networks facilitating horizontal transmission of language features
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What is brokering and who suggested it?

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  • Wenger and Eckert
  • The use of multimembership in to transfer some element of language from 1 social group to another
  • In order to be a successful ‘broker’, individuals must be able to exert enough influence in each group to be able to carry ideas from 1 group and introduce them to another
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What is Multicultural Urban British English and who proposed it?

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  • Rob Drummond
  • Various urban multi ethnolect varieties in existence; each includes a local accent and dialect features
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What is code mixing?

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The occasional insertion of vocabulary items from 1 language to another

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What is code switching?

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When the speaker moves from 1 language to another for more extensive periods of time

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What are some of the discourses around multicultural London English?

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  1. Not English- fake
  2. Lack of morality
  3. Spoken by black communities
  4. Aggressive/ crime related
  5. Foreign/strange
  6. Trend
  7. Insignificant/no value
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What did Sharma and Sanskaren conduct research into?

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Punjabi Indian English heritage

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What did Sharma and Rampton conduct research into?

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British Asian men

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What did Sharma and Rampton find in their research into British Asian men?

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  • Young men socialised in mainly Asian groups but their employment and entertainment were local
  • There was much less need to switch between speech styles to the same extent
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What did Sharma and Sanskaren find in their research on Punjabi Indian English heritage?

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West London Indians seemed to have moved from a wide ranging repertoire to one narrower and less flexible in the space of a generation

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How is Cockney ‘under threat’?

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  1. H dropping is disappearing
  2. TH fronting and glottal stops from London accent has moved to places such as Kent (possibly due to social attitudes)
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How could ‘Bredren’ be described?

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Voiced dental fricative ‘th’ (brethren) is substituted with voiced alveolar plosive ‘d’ (bredrin)

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How could ‘yutes’ be described?

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  • Voiceless dental fricative TH (youths) substituted with voiceless alveolar plosive T (yutes)
  • TH dropping
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What 2 view points conflict?

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Essentialist and Constructivist

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How can Milroy’s work on social networks be applied to language and ethnicity?

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  • Those within the same social networks may share language, e.g. MLE
  • Therefore, ethnicity may not play a large role within some people’s language
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How could Giles’ Accommodation theory be applied to language and ethnicity?

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Speakers will manifest their position and their positive attitude towards a particular group by sounding like members of that group (convergence)

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What are multicultural Urban British English features?

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  1. Vowel variation
  2. Word initial DH and TH dropping
  3. Use of pragmatics markers (you get me?)
  4. Use of slang words with a Jamaican heritage

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