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Language and Ethnicity - Coggle Diagram
Language and Ethnicity
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Roger Hewitt (1986)
Studied relations between black and white teens in London - strong link between language use and identity
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Ben Rampton (2010)
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- study of South Asian 2nd/3rd gen immigrants
-Creole = "cool, tough and assertive" - associated with competence in relationships and opposition to authority
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- African and french influences e.g. musen me
- spoken by Jamaicans developed from pigin or trade lang)
Some positive connotations 'tough, assertive'
Sue Fox (2006)
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(- spkn by youths from white, black and asian communities
- pool varies depending on place/age
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- some coin as "jaficain" although only slightly affected by jamaican
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Features-vocab: bare = a lot/very. Phonology: dropping of diphthong vowel sounds of words e.g. face = fes)
John Pits (2012) BBE
Help = Hep- downward convergence to BBE by speakers who felt ignored and constrained by society and therefore created a resistance identity
Features-phonology: consonant clusters help = hep and lexis: greater creativity: bald man = peelhead)
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Van Dijk
Media representation of ethnic minorities portrayed as unimportant , stereotyped , violent , a threat. E.g Ali G