Language and Ethnicity

Question 1

Nationality

Answer 1

An aspect of identity that refers to the country of a person’s birth or citizenship.

Question 2

Creole

Answer 2

A variety that has developed from a ‘pidgin’ or trade language to become a stable language used by speakers as their mother tongue.

Question 3

Patois

Answer 3

An alternative term for creole, sometimes spelt ‘patwa’ to distance the language from apparent connections with Europe, and to suggest how it should be pronounced.

Question 4

Resistance Identity

Answer 4

An identity that goes against mainstream culture.

Question 5

Super-standard Forms

Answer 5

Language that deliberately intensifies the standard forms of mainstream culture.

Question 6

British Black English

Answer 6

A wide-ranged label, but often referring to a variety used by some speakers within the Caribbean community in the UK.

Question 7

Multicultural Urban British English

Answer 7

A label that refers to the way in which Multicultural London English has spread to other large conurbations in the UK.

Question 8

Code Mixing

Answer 8

The inclusion of words and phrases from one language in another.

Question 9

Code Switching

Answer 9

Switching between different languages in a sustained way.

Question 10

Linguistic Appropriacy

Answer 10

The way in which language choices reflect ideas about what is appropriate for any given context.