Regional Variaties Flashcards
What is MLE?
(Multicultural London English)
– people will use language to reflect identity.
– afro-American of Jamaican origins speak this language.
– Schools were 50% of peoples have English as a second language, claim language is picked up at a young age.
What does Paul Kerswill suggest about this?
He suggests that it is used as an exclusionary tactic.
What is BAE?
(Bradford Asian English)
– known as a hybrid dialect including code switching.
– Speak Punjabi, possible link to Paul Kerswill, with regards to the exclusionary tactic.
What does Gary Ives suggest?
In a case study, involving 95% of students were from Pakistani backgrounds, the majority were from May where there are many villages.
– South London includes a wide range of ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds.
What happened is Ives’s Bradford Study?
Spoken to a few children/teenagers who explained:
– “it’s the way we’re born“.
– “Everyone speaks like this“.
– “It’s where we live“.
– “It’s natural”.
What do all of these phrases imply?
They imply that it is the norm and that this allows children to feel a sense of belonging, identity and a persona.
– The children have also distinguished themselves as “freshies” which is a form of semantic reclamation, possibly linked to Paul Kerswill.
What does John Aytos’s suggest?
Proposed the idea that cockney rhyming slang faced or originated in the ascent of London, during the first half of the 19th century.
– the Oxford English dictionary website suggests that cockney Robinson’s language probably, “1st used by street sellers, beggars and petty criminals”.
– Typically used for linguistic playfulness and mostly used for humour.
What is an accent?
A distinctive style of speaking/pronunciation of a national, local or social group. Phonological.
What is a dialect?
A form of language spoken in a particular area, electrical variation.
What is social mobility?
Changing one’s social class.
What is an idiomatic phrase?
Many areas have phrases that are different to that dictionary meaning.
