SAC4 Quotes

Question 1

teenagers keep in with peers and secrets
slang changes quickly one step behind
harder try catch on, more out of touch
law

Answer 1

Teenagers have a particular desire to keep in with their peers and keep secrets from others; that’s why teenage slang changes so quickly and why parents and mainstream media are always one step behind. The harder non-teens try to catch on to current teenspeak, the more painful out of touch most of them sound (Law)

Question 2

manafestation of human ability
create and suit demands
crystal

Answer 2

[teenspeak is] a manifestation of human ability… to be linguistically creative and to adapt language to suit the demands of diverse settings (Crystal)

Question 3

language of gays

Paul

Answer 3

The language [of gays] helped gay men talk to each [other] in front of straight people. It enabled gays to feel like part of an exclusive group (Paul)

Question 4

if we detect accent

basset

Answer 4

If we detect some sort of an accent… we immediately form an opinion of the speaker even if he has only uttered a few sounds. (Basset)

Question 5

butcher
language evolving
different subgroups is how you speak

Answer 5

…language is constantly evolving to reflect Australia’s changing cultures… There are so many different subgroups in society, and depending on which one you belong to is how you will speak (Butcher)

Question 6

using slang, politicians

Kidd

Answer 6

By using slang, politicians are trying to both align themselves with ‘Mr & Mrs Average Australian’ by showing them that they aren’t really different anybody else despite their unusual job that comes with a high profile (Kidd)

Question 7

williams

flow

Answer 7

When we speak, [identity] flows from us (Williams)

Question 8

crystal

natural badge

Answer 8

more than anything else, language shows we belong providing the most natural badge of symbol of public and private identity (Crystal)

Question 9

Burridge &mulder
standard highest prestige
education higher income groups

Answer 9

the Standard is the dialect of highest prestige, being associated with education and with the higher income groups (Burridge & Mulder)

Question 10

BAE example

Answer 10

longer, drawn out vowels such as /maɪn/ pronounced as /mɒen/ and monophthongs turn into diphthongs such as /meit/ turns into /moit/

Question 11

CAE example

Answer 11

ounded, heightened vowel sounds such as /ɛɪ/ in /bɛɪt/

Question 12

Peck

male aus accent

Answer 12

reliable, strong and trustworthy while women with the Broad Australian accents were rated as uneducated and unlikely to be in professional positions.

Question 13

ethnolect example

this that

Answer 13

voiced dental fricative /ð/ being replaced by the voiced alveolar plosive /d/ in lexemes such as ‘this’ and ‘the’