15.1 Language and Identity
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- Identity
- Les Parrot
- Teen Idenity
- Contributory factors
- through forbidden behaviours
- e.g. smoking, drinking
- through rebellion
- separates them from adults but gains acceptance of their peers
- through idols
- e.g. celebrities may become role models for teenagers
- through cliquish exclusion
- teens exclude those who, they believe, have unacceptable or unattractive characteristics
- through forbidden behaviours
- Professor of Psychology at Seattle Pacific University
- Joanna Thornborrow (2004)
- language can be used to establish an identity and shape people's views of who we are
- specific lexical choices
- variations in phonology
- language can be used to establish an identity and shape people's views of who we are
- Labov (1961)
- Martha's Vineyard
- Locals need to retain a social identity
- interviewed 69 people from different social groups
- asked speciifc questions to encourage the use of dipthongs
- found that hotel owners and other established businesses (migrants) subconsciously adapted their language and identity to sound like the common fishermen, and distinct from tourists.
- asked speciifc questions to encourage the use of dipthongs
- interviewed 69 people from different social groups
- Dawn Island (East) filled with toruists
- Up Island (West) had original inhabitants and fishermen
- Locals need to retain a social identity
- Martha's Vineyard
- something that is created by individual characteristics, thus creating a personal identity. it can also be linked to a particular social group with similar characteristics
- Les Parrot
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