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...