multicultural london english: kanguage change
- Created by: emilyirish
- Created on: 29-10-16 11:57
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- MLE essay plan: why is it good
- good
- it is a mixture of many different slangs therefore there is not one uniform way of speaking the language
- it is slowly becoming more uniform and expanding past east london to essex and hertfordshire
- kershwill(2007 did a study to show how being able to speak a common socioloect made immigrants feel like they belonged
- it is showig that the world in england is evolving to become a more multicultural place, and that english can be broadended
- broadning the english language is a perscriptivists nightmare and a descriptivists dream
- origion
- it originated in the east end of london among the young working class, it is slowly replacing cockney english
- it is most commonly heard to be spoken among school children where english is not their first lamguage
- the cockney way of speaking is associated with first gen immigrants who are known as anglos.
- the cockney slang is more known with those who are 2nd and 3rd generation migrants from all differnt counteries
- it is all differnet there are no two districtswith the same words
- bad
- so many different warys of talking it can mean that it is hard to understand
- itis often confused with other different idolects
- distorting the way english has bee spoken for centuries and making it confusing
- demarcation:there is no boundry
- how it is spoken
- the great dipthong shift
- vowel sounds
- f-th
- i was, you was= replacing werent
- it is mainly seen that ethnic minorietes all speak it a different way, lancaster university publishesd a study on how ethnic minorites spread the language
- the great dipthong shift
- good
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