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Language and identity, (Basil Bernstein, ✘ Deictical, ✘ Likely to share…
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✘ Short, simple and often incomplete sentences
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‘You know what I mean?’ I said to Mary. ‘What do you mean by that?’ she said ‘Ask him what’s what on this one.’ ‘Oh does he,’ I said, ‘well he’d better be letting me know what’s on his mind or I’ll be after him. Pass me that, will you, before I forget it?’
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‘Could you let me know your plan for the meeting? Is it cancelled or not? What excuse are you proposing to make, and who do you expect to do your dirty work? It just isn’t right to let people down when they’ve been expecting some answers about company policy.’
Also concluded that boys in her study used more non-standard forms than girls; boys perceive that they get ‘covert prestige’ from using ‘vernacular’ forms.
Covert Prestige = when non-standard languages or dialects are regarded as high linguistic prestige by members of a speech community.
Vernacular = the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
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Cheshire concluded that these teenagers were conforming to gang subculture by using non-standard forms.
Norwich, 1974 - Grammatical Variables
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present simple verb (eg. he sings, she dances)
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