Ethnicity

Question 1

Ethnicity

Answer 1

Relates to aspects of a persons cultural identity.

Question 2

Nationality

Answer 2

Which nation you belong to, more of a legal concept.

Question 3

What Factors does ethnicity relate to?

Answer 3

Who you see as your community e.g. religious beliefs, language usage and family relationships.

Question 4

What is Creole?

Answer 4

A stable natural language that develops from the simplifying and mixing of different language at a fairly sudden point in time.

Question 5

Define Patios:

Answer 5

Language of the home; English is something children learn at school.

Question 6

Pitts: creole

Answer 6

Resistance identity:
Stated that young black people who felt ignored by society might see their use of creole as a state of resistance.

Question 7

Non Standard Pronouns: Jamaican English vs standard English

Answer 7

Mi Run = I run
Dem run = They run

Question 8

Non standard use of verbs: Jamaican Creole.

Answer 8

Verb “to be”: “she be pretty”
Not always marked for tense: “he’ll tell me dat yesterday”

Question 9

Features of Pidgin:

Answer 9

No ones native language, reduced grammar and vocabulary, mixing of language, learn it orally/ not written.

Question 10

Features of creole:

Answer 10

Native speakers, fully developed vocabulary and grammar, mixed language, has a writing system.

Question 11

Ben Rampton: Creole.

Answer 11

He said “Creole was widely seen as cool, tough and good to use. Associated with assertiveness and opposition to authority”
As early as 1960s Creole was being used by urban youngsters who didn’t have a black peer group - code mixing.

Question 12

Cheshire (2008)

Answer 12

Identified new forms of English emerging from London’s inner city and taking root far beyond - MLE

Question 13

Examples of Lexis in MLE

Answer 13

Mandem, Bare and Ends

Question 14

Phonological features of MLE

Answer 14

Diphthong vowel sounds: “face” “/Fes/“

Question 15

Lexical features of MLE

Answer 15

Innit as a tag question.

Question 16

Grammatical features of MLE

Answer 16

“Man” as a pronoun - “man paid himself”

Question 17

Kerswill: In defence of MLE

Answer 17

Defended MLE from Starkey who claimed “gangster culture has become the fashion” and “Jamaican patois had intruded England”

Question 18

Kerswills Findings

Answer 18

Young Londoners don’t use “h” omission anymore,
Young people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds use MLE - less about race more about age.

Question 19

Where did MLE come from?

Answer 19

Wind rush generation.
From Jamaican creole.

Question 20

Drummond (2012)

Answer 20

Examined speech habits of polish immigrants in Manchester.
Difference in pronunciation between 2 types of immigrants: polish who wanted to stay in UK converged and those who didn’t diverged.

Question 21

Limitations of Drummond

Answer 21

No comparison to general accent in Poland.

Question 22

“Black” and “white” associations

Answer 22

Positive for white - “white lie” isn’t a very bad lie
More negative for black - “black Wednesday” one of worst financial crashes in 1992.