'what does the way you speak reveal about you?'
(ppt on email from miss c)
Judith Butler’s theory of performing identity claims that our identity is constructed by the language we use rather than the language we use constructing our identity. Linguistic relativism / determinism - Saphir Whorf hypothesis.
gender, class, accent, education, sexuality, race (MBE, AAVE)
matched guise
discourse community
accent bias
3 main things drivers of language change:
women, young people, marginalised (racial) groups
language change is driven by technology
Giles
Coupland and Bishop
Devyani Sharma
Cole
McKenzie and McNeill
Dixon, Mahoney, and Cocks
Tompkinson
community of practice - group of individuals who meet frequently with a common goal (e.g. football team)
trickle up linguistics
social attractiveness (ppl will like you) vs social status
political correctness: verbal hygeine
use knowledge organiser rhys sent in y12 for p1 and 2 terminology
‘evaluate the idea that a person’s language use is determined by their identity’
Judith Butler’s theory of performing identity claims that our identity is constructed by the language we use (linguistic relativism) rather than the language we use constructing our identity (linguistic determinism). The concept of performing identity can be applied to various factors that influence our language use, such as social groups. For example,
paper 2 help
emagazine
when analysing be specific to the text, rather than all things of that nature (e.g. all podcasts use language that makes it easy to understand).
discourse structure: stages of argument
e.g. particular emotional lexis in a particular area concerning a certain perspective/idea
positioning e.g. ‘writer positions themselves as an expert’ (they like the words position)
plan question 3 and 4 together
analyse in detail for q1 and 2, and find something different to say in q3
p2 q3
talk about sentence structure and clause, evaluate points, keep comparing
headline: putting the NO in voice NOte
tag line: next time, please just send a text
Don’t get me wrong, I love to have a chat with my friends. We can go on for hours and hours about anything under the sun, but if that same cherished friend sends me a voice note over two minutes long I wish they’d have just texted me instead.
But why is this? What makes texting so preferable to voice notes? Well, linguist Grice would argue that voice notes actually go against conversational norms. Grice believes that conversations should be cooperative, with one factor aiding this cooperation being ‘quantity’ in conversation.
Dear Ms Condon,
Thank you so much for being the best English teacher ever. You’ve carried our A level, and we’re all so grateful for the help you’ve given us. I wouldn’t have been able to tackle the horrors of coursework without you. Although we all complain about writing a single paragraph (unless we get a sticker), our lessons have been so much fun, and something I’ll always cherish. Thanks for putting up with our shenanigans for two years without alerting safeguarding. Thank you for everything,
Saniya