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Context

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with the large arrival of Caribbean people in the UK from the late 1940s onwards, new forms of English started to be heard in many predominantly urban areas

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1960s & 70s

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the contact between Jamaican-English young people and their white working class neighbours (work, school, relationships) meant that people were exposed to each other’s varieties of English

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Crossing

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when speakers who had access to both London and Jamaican English might shift from one style to another, depending on who they were with

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Ben Rampton notes:

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‘Creole was widely seen as cool, tough and good to use.. it was associated with assertiveness, verbal resourcefulness, competence in relationships and opposition to authority’ (2010)

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Hewitt (1986) & Sebba (1993)

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identified a new development in the 1980s that of ‘Black Cockney’ - a style rather than a discrete variety - used by young black speakers in London

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John Pitts (2012)

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noticed a different shift among some young English speakers who felt that mainstream society was ignoring and constraining them, towards a resistance identity though language