Ethnicity Mindmap
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- Created on: 30-04-18 09:07
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- Ethnicity
- Mark Sebba
- 'Black British English' consisted of the local British vernacular as well as Jamaican creole.
- Sometimes called Jafaican in the media.
- Authenticity achieved through practices rather than ethnicity.
- Roger Hewitt
- Close friendships permit sociolinguistic violation of norms
- Strong link between language use and ethnic identity for 2nd born generation of Caribbean descendants
- Studied the relations between 70 black and white Afro-Caribbean adolescents in South London
- Ben Rampton
- South Asian 2nd and 3rd generation South Midlands adolescents
- They used Punjabi and South Asian English to challenge white dominated social hierarchies
- ** Windrush
- 1948 One of the first waves of immigration
- Brought 500 Jamaicans
- Creoles began to emerge and London Jamaican became a dialect
- John Pitts
- Established that a resistance identity was created by young people who wanted to go against the mainstream identity
- Sounded like Bob Marley
- Kerswill
- Investigated 98 adolescents from inner and outer London and compared language with 16 elderly Londoners
- New quotative 'this is them' used
- Findings Pronoun 'youse' Plural 'dem'
- David Starkey
- Made an explicit link between Multicultural London English and violence and black culture
- Sue Fox
- Emergence of commonly spoken variety- Multi Ethnic Youth Dialect which is a combination of English, West Indian, West African and Bangladeshi
- Spoken by white, black and Asian communities who share a similar socio-economic background
- Mark Sebba
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