Language And ethnicity Flashcards
Deborah Tannen’s study
Looked simultaneous speech. Had Experience of different ethnic groups whose rules of interaction varied in their level of directness- ‘high engagement cultures’ who overlapped each other’s speech to show enthusiastic agreement
Ethnicity
Concept that relates to aspects of a person’s cultural identity
Nationality
Aspect of identity that refers to the country of a person’s birth or citizenship
Patois
Creole, sometimes spelt patwa to distance the language from apparent connections with Europe, and to suggest how it should be pronounced
Resistance identity
An identity that goes against mainstream culture
Super-standard forms
Language use that deliberately intensifies the standard forms of mainstream culture
Creole
A variety that has developed from a pidgin or trade language to become a stable language used by speakers as their mother tongue
Roger Hewitt and Mark Sebba
Identified a new development in the 1980s, that of Black Cockney used by young black speakers in London
John Pitts
Different shift among some young black English speakers who felt that mainstream society was ignoring and constraining them, towards a resistance identity through language
British Black English
A wide ranging label, but often referring to a variety used by some speakers within the Caribbean community in the UK
Multicultural Urban British English
A label that refers to the way in which Multicultural London English has spread to other large conurbations in the UK
Code mixing
The inclusion of words and phrases from one language in another
Code switching
Switching between different languages in a sustained way
Linguistic appropriacy
The way in which language choices reflect ideas about what is appropriate for any given context
