Urban youth language and identity

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  • Created on: 06-02-20 12:52
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  • Multi-Cultural London English
    • Migration = key factor
      • includes Asian & Caribbean mixed with English = new dialects
      • Bradford Asian english = another example
    • Features
      • Dh-stopping (dis/dat = this/that)
      • Th-fronting (Free = three)
      • Simplification of article allomorphy (a apple)
      • You get me (replacing innit)
      • Quotatives (be like, this is)
      • Monothongisation (vowel sounds becoming shorter)
      • Extreme GOOSE fronting
      • 'Jafaican' Paul Kerswill
    • Causes
      • High immigration
      • High ethnic mix
      • group second language acquisition
      • Feature pool
      • Often picked up at a young age
        • Schools where 50% have EL2
      • Some use to form an identity
    • Theories/ attitudes
      • Gary Ives
        • Code switching
          • Bilingual speaker alternates between 2 languages when speaking
        • 2 case studies - Bradford & London
      • Lindsay Johns
        • code switching dismissed
        • Aims to change how young people speak
        • Doesnt see that we should teach contextual appropriateness
      • Davis Starkey
        • 'Whites have become black'
          • Prescriptive view. links with violence, & gang culture
      • Rob Drummond
        • The Urban ID project (Jul 2014 - Jul 2016)
          • Challenges Prejudice, Raises awareness
          • 2 PRU learning centres. Ethnographic. Role of lang. & identities
          • Data collected:  Lessons, 1 to 1, small groups, self peer recording, word lists
        • - Manchester, - MME/MLE/ MUBE
      • Eckert (2000)  Observational resaerch in american schools
      • Cheshire (1982) teenage sociolect
      • Powney - familect
    • Identity and Language
      • Identities are not static
      • Something we do, not have
      • Doesn't reflect who we are, it makes who we are
      • Language interacts with other semiotic resources
      • Co-constructed in the interaction of the moment & context
    • Summary
      • There is prejudice surrounding youth lang.
      • Can be challenged through greater understanding
      • MUBE appears to be a real thing
      • Maybe spread through social practices
      • Ethnicity plays less of a role than expected

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