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What do the examples: 'wack' and 'blood' show about lexical variety? |
Depends on family, education, career and social upbringing, sex, age and occupation.
E.g. The dialectal variations of the concrete noun 'Dessert': Pudding, Desert, Sweet, Afters
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What is diffusion? |
It's the spreading of something. |
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What ideas (from the poster) shows fashion and popular culture is the main influence for the spread of dialect words? |
'Wack' a dialect word originating in 1960's Liverpool, was diffused by, The Beatles globally.
'Blood' meaning friend, from London, UK first used by the playwright John Rastell diffused into the US, to address a fellow black person since 1960's |
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Q: How else has 'blood' diffused? |
Diffused throughout the UK, due to also rap music 'grime' origin London. This implies that the music culture use of dialect can cause a variation of meanings. |
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Q: What other dialectal words have diffused due to fashion and popular culture? |
Skinhead, for a member of the sub culture originating among the working class youths in 1960's London.
Dr Martens, 'braces' (suspenders) and 'shower head' People labelled due to their appearances 'skin-head' and 'shower-head'
'Fam' similar to 'blood' originated from London -> Caribbean heritage used by younger people -> diffused through internet, music, film. |
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How does 'skin-head' link with 'blood'? |
Both are used as a form of address to fellow black person. Used in the rap song, by the popular African American artist 'Kanye West - Black Skinhead' |
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And overall what does this mean? |
The meaning of a word can change when it is used by different groups in different areas. E.g. As we've seen 'skinhead' was related to Ska (a music genre) in the 60's but was also associated with far-right groups as the 70s progressed. |
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How does 'Film & TV' help the diffusion of local dialect words? |
Especially in British Films, like 'Adulthood' 'Boyhood' where such local dialect words are persistently used, it can be diffused in public areas like |
