A Level English Language Occupation and Ethnicity Key Theorists

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David Crystal
Jargon in the workplace leads to optimal communication. Builds group identity, and elite members then emerge.
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John Swales
Discourse Communities - A group of people with shared goals and aims.
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Drew and Heritage
Suggest knowing jargon makes a job more smoothly. Inferential Frameworks - A shared understanding built up over time.
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Penelope Ekert
Communities of Practice - Social groups on a much smaller scale. Macro paradigms are too vague.
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Gary Ives MLE
Defined MLE, saying it forms from Afro-Caribbean roots. Also used by children of white ethnicity to fit into a group.
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Gary Ives
Bradford Study - found teenagers code switched between Punjabi and English. Recently moved Pakistani children didn't share dialect so excluded from group identity.
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Discourse Communities - A group of people with shared goals and aims.

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John Swales

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Suggest knowing jargon makes a job more smoothly. Inferential Frameworks - A shared understanding built up over time.

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Communities of Practice - Social groups on a much smaller scale. Macro paradigms are too vague.

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Defined MLE, saying it forms from Afro-Caribbean roots. Also used by children of white ethnicity to fit into a group.

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