English Language Identity
- Created by: miaagrace
- Created on: 28-03-16 15:38
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- Identity
- Ethnicity
- Creole
- Mix of two parent languages
- Children's primary language
- Sign of solidarity
- Pidgin
- No one's native language
- Blend of 2 languages
- Created by adults who speak different languages so they can communicate
- British Black English
- Sign of solidarity
- Form of Creole
- Creole
- Accent
- What is accent?
- Pronunciation based on region
- Terms
- Urban
- Big cities
- Social
- Adopted by social groups with no regional base
- Received pronunciation
- Main social accent and 'proper' British accent
- Standard English
- 'Proper' form of English
- Dialect
- Lexis based on region
- Urban
- What is accent?
- Power
- Types of power
- Instrumental
- Maintain + enforces authority
- Influential
- Influences + persuades others
- Instrumental
- Advertising
- Comparative and superlative adjectives; high tech jargon
- Alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhyme
- Stand-out graphology
- Discourse - persuasion, information then instructions on how to purchase product
- Types of power
- Gender
- Terms
- Marked terms
- Adding a gender, since it's stereotypicaly for the other gender (career woman, male nurse)
- Lexical asymmetry
- Not symmetrical (bachelor vs spinster)
- Diminutive suffix
- Adding a suffix to a gender neutral job (waitress)
- Marked terms
- Prestige
- Women overt prestige
- Men covert prestige
- Theories
- Defecit
- Women's language is less powerful
- Dominance
- Men control conversations
- Difference
- Women and men speak differently when in same sex conversations
- Women are cooperative
- Men pay less regard to the need to save face, use insults
- Women and men speak differently when in same sex conversations
- Defecit
- Terms
- Online
- Text
- Emojis
- Abbreviations
- Twitter
- Constraints
- Limited word count
- Social practices of community - social rules
- Rise
- Used for education
- Used for politics and news
- Constraints
- Text
- Social
- Accomodation Theory
- Convergence
- Upward convergence - jobs, teachers, police
- Downward convergence - friends, peers
- Changing speech to..
- Fit in
- Stand out
- Convergence
- Accomodation Theory
- Ethnicity
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