language and identity

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idiolect

a persons individual and unique language based on their life experiences (also know as a linguistic fingerprint)

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what influences idiolect

  • places you live

  • education/job

  • culture

  • gender

  • social background

  • family and friends

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what is identity

how a person chooses to present themself and how other people perceive them

  • made up by their personality, humour, style, hobbies, language, actions, values

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Joanna Thornborrow

  • “identity, whether on an individual, social or institutional level is something that we are constantly building and negotiating through our lives through interaction with others”

  • “one of the most fundamental ways we have of establishing identity… is through our use of language”

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Donna Air

  • used to speak with a very northern and friendly voice, lots of filler words

  • she lost her accent and began to sound more intelligent as she became more famous and in the public eye and moved away from her newcastle social circle to a new one