Ethnic Variation Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
Q
BBE
A
Creolised patois
Jamaican patois
West African creole
BB vernacular
2
Q
John Pitt’s
A
2002
Young black people felt mainstream society constrained them ~ resistance identity
Gravitated towards covert prestige
3
Q
Gerrard Mclendon
A
It is institutionalised rascism not teaching children how to code switch
4
Q
Lindsay Johns
A
Language holds people back “MLE speakers”
5
Q
Examples
A
Lexis - Wagwan
Phonology- dental substitution “dis ting”
Syntax- me like that
Discourse and tag questions- innit
6
Q
Chessire et al
A
2008
New forms of English arise in young people
7
Q
Pidgin
A
Lingua franca
8
Q
Creole
A
Pidgin becomes own language
9
Q
Jamaican creole to BBE
A
Enslaved black people mixed and amalgamation of creoles and pidgins and local English spoken in local urban centres
