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Unit 4 Outcome 2. Individual Groups and Identities. Identity. We will continue to focus on identity. Specifically: How language works to reflect and construct both individuals and group identities through subconscious and conscious language variation.
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Unit 4 Outcome 2 Individual Groups and Identities
Identity • We will continue to focus on identity. • Specifically: How language works to reflect and construct both individuals and group identities through subconscious and conscious language variation. • Age, gender, sexual orientation, occupation, interests, aspirations and education. We also look at online identities. • So rather than just ethnicity and culture we look at individual factors that play just as an important role on how we use language. • We will learn to understand that a group or individuals linguistic features are essentially a trademark. Just as your linguistic variations TEENSPEAK indicate your age, likes and dislikes!
Terms to know: • Sociolinguistics: The study of the relationship between language and society. • Dialect: a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially. • Sociolect: avariety of a language used by a particular social group; a social dialect. • Speech Repertoire: A range of linguistic varieties that speakers have available to them and that they draw on to perform social roles.
Key terms to know • Sociolect continuum: a chain of sociolects in which develop over time variant on age, socio economic status, region, education. The age gap between yourself and your parents and then your grandfather/mother may impact on each others ability to understand certain terms or expressions. E.g. courting > going around> dating > hooking up • A dialect continuum is a chain of dialects, let us say dialects 1–10, with the following property: Speakers of dialect 1 understand dialect 2 extremely well. Speakers of dialect 1 and dialect 3 understand each other rather less well, and speakers of dialect 1 and dialect 4 less well again. There comes to a point, however, say at dialect 5, where dialect 1 is no longer intelligible to the local people and vice versa.
SAC outcomes • YES you will continue to write essays for this unit as you will need to get used to this for the exam. Each SAC is worth 25 marks. • We will be watch another video that will require you to respond in essay format. • The final SAC will use a culmination of quotes from linguists and an article (you will get before the SAC). Using your knowledge of this outcome and identity you will respond in….wait for it…an essay! • We should finish this unit by the end of term and that leaves 4 weeks for exam preparation. • In that time: You will complete 1 exam a week that will help you to scaffold your responses appropriately. • YOU SHOULD: create an ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOLDER that recaps everything we have learnt for your study purposes.