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What is MLE? |
Multi-cultural London English |
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Ethnolect |
A variety of a language associated with acertain ethnic or cultural subgroup. An ethnolect may be a distinguishing markof social identity, both within the group and for outsiders. |
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Multiethnolect |
•Alanguage variety formed with the input of several ethnic groups. •Generallyspoken by young people living in multicultural and multilingual districts oflarge cities. •Avariant of the native language in an area with many second languagespeakers. It will contain new features,not found in the standard, nor in contributing languages. |
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Paul Kerswill |
“In much of the East End of London theCockney dialect... will have disappeared within another generation...‘transplanted’ to... [Essex and Hertfordshire] towns.’’ |
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Speakers of MLE |
Vernacular speakers Workingclass young people in areas of high migration Youth style: Some elements of the multiethnolect –especially slang – are borrowable as ‘style’ by others, including middle classspeakers. |
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Identify the features of MLE |
•“Man”as a pronoun in first, second and third persons. •“Thisis + speaker” quotative(replacing “I’m like”). •Variousslang lexis: “Blud”, “mandem”, “yout”,“bare”. •Initial‘H’ pronounced, unlike in Cockney.•Dipthongs andvowels often shorter and flatter. •Grammaroften similar to Cockney. |
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David Starkey |
"A particular sort of violent,destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion, and black andwhite, boy and girl, operate in this language together, this language which iswholly false, which is this Jamaican patois that has been intruded in England,and this iswhy so many of us have this sense of, literally, a foreign country." |
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Representation of MLE |
•Mid2000s – seen in media reports as “cool”, “modern”. •Later2000s – association in the media with crime, poverty. •2011– linked by David Starkey to London riots. 2014 onwards – association with Jihadi John.•Deterioratingreputation in mainstream media. |
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What are the factors which influence language choice? |
Social group Age Gender Region Ethnicity Occupation Power |
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Features of Estuary English |
L Vocalisation The L replaced by something different such as a vowel (ie. L to W) T Glottaling Use of a glottal stop |
