Theories

Question 1

Aitchison, Jean

Answer 1

labelling/packaging/network building-explored lexical acquisition and patterns/relationships (CLA)

Question 2

Baker, Paul

Answer 2

construction of sexuality and gender through language

Question 3

Barthes, R

Answer 3

semiotics, construction of meaning
relationship between reader and writer: signifier and signified

Question 4

Beattie, Geoffrey

Answer 4

significance of interruptions (gender)

Question 5

Berko, Jean

Answer 5

Wug test, morphology, (CLA)

Question 6

Bernstein, Basil

Answer 6

restricted vs elaborated code; links between language and social class

Question 7

Brown, Penelope

Answer 7

pragmatics, face, politeness principle (with Levinson)

Question 8

Brown, Roger

Answer 8

syntax, morphology in relation to CLA

Question 9

Bruner, Jerome

Answer 9

emphasis on the social environment of children in supporting linguistic development (CLA)

Question 10

Cameron, Deborah

Answer 10

gender interaction and challenges difference and deficit models

Question 11

Cheshire, Jennifer

Answer 11

Non-grammatical forms, peer groups, dialect

Question 12

Chomsky, Noam

Answer 12

nativism/inbuilt capacity to develop speech ‘programmed’ into the human brain

Question 13

Coates, Jennifer

Answer 13

Gender, oral culture, house talk

Question 14

Coulthard, M

Answer 14

discourse analysis; classroom discourse
IRF (Initiation-Response-Follow-up model (with Sinclair)

Question 15

Crystal, David

Answer 15

Descriptivist/very influential contemporary linguist