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How does Text A use language to create meanings and representations? Text A is an informal interview about the police profession and is targeted at the general public and anyone that wants to pursue a career in the police force. The interview uses the colloquial term 'cop' instead of police officer as it's more informal and uses slang to converge to teenage dialect. The website has a section called 'myhub' which uses a possessive pronoun 'my' which makes the audience feel like they have ownership. The typography is graffiti style which represents a younger generation. Cartoon graphology of young people means the audience can identify with them. The interview style discourse structure is simplistic and includes images to break up the text and engage the audience. The superlative 'proudest' is used to focus on positive aspects of the career and represents it as heroic and rewarding. Hyperlinks give access to entire website to explore the profession ...
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Opinion Article – Should teen language be celebrated as being representative of the diversity of our language or judged to be restrictive and inferior?   Teenagers are often portrayed as lazy, moody and an article in the Daily Mail says that teenagers only use 800 words compared to adults who use 20,000+. As a teenager myself, I am here to tell you why I strongly disagree with this accusation. I’m constantly surrounded by people my age and have to interact with them on daily basis so of course my language is going to be shaped by them.   However, every individual teenager has their differences in how they communicate. For example, a life event such as grieving from a death will cause a teenager to mature much quicker than they would have before. Theorist Penelope Eckert (1998) believes that any life event that affects social relations and attitudes help to develop a teenagers language. Jenny Cheshire (1987) adds to this theory by saying life events also affect adult...
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Attitudes to TeenSpeak - The Teens Who Can Barely Talk What does the article suggest contributes to the drop from knowing 40,000 words to using 800? Communicating through electronic media and text messaging which is short and brief. Do you agree with this argument? I agree that teenagers shorten words and use texting language when using media platforms and chatting to friends however, I feel like most teenagers know when that language is appropriate and when it is not. Do you agree that teenagers having their own language is their way of saying 'we are different'. Is it inventive, ever changing and brilliant? I think that every generation has their language quirks and developments from the previous generation. This current generation of teenagers is just one of the many language changes that have happened and will continue to happen. What is your opinion on the comment that 'some disadvantaged children don't know that there is a different way of speaking ...
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TeenSpeak Questions If we are to assume that we do speak differently at various times in our life, how could you argue that age is the most significant factor? Your age affects who you spend time with i.e. people in your age category in places such as school, therefore, you develop language specific to your age group. What is your opinion the view that 'life events' are more influential and more significant on our language than age? I think that life events affect your language i.e. if you are surrounded by older siblings, you'll have a more mature lexicon range. However, I believe age affects your language more as your constantly around your age group. What 'life events' may influence your language? Grieving from death can course you to mature faster than you would have before.
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To what extent do you agree that accent and dialect is a performance of our identity? There is a lot of evidence to agree that accent and dialect is a performance of our identity. MLE language is perceived as 'sounding black' but ethnically neutral. Another word used to describe a type of MLE is 'Jafacian' also known as 'fake Jamaican'. MLE language features include shorter trajectories of the vowel sounds in words like face or goat, words like food use vowels that resemble 'tu' so they pronounce the word 'footu' instead, words pronounced with a 'th' are changed to 'd' or 't' e.g. they becomes dey. Grime music increased in popularity as the culture has spread. Grime artists outside of London decide to rap in their own dialects. Rappers like to use their own cultural language as helps represent where they are from and shapes who they are as a person and an artist. This causes young people to not only pick up on the MLE l...
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Task 1: Cockney Rhyming Slang Article Summary In the article 'Londoners baffled by Cockney rhyming slang' the main message is that Cockney rhyming slang is dying out as even modern Londoners don't know what most of the rhyming slang means. Cockney rhyming slang is still used however, but with only a few like 'porky pies' and 'apples and pears' being recognized on a large scale.    Task 2:  Multicultural London English/ Multicultural Urban British English https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/26/rhyming-slang-nang-chill-cockneys 1. What does Nikesh Shukla believe has happened to Cockney rhyming slang? He believes that Cockney rhyming slang has died out, rather just migrated with Cockneys moving away from the area. 2. What does he believe has replaced rhyming slang? Language in the East End is now being replaced by grime, hip hop and the internet rather than from traditional rhyming slang. 3. What reasons does he give...
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