Lucy's English Language blog

Word of mouth documentary  notes: ·          What words and gestures to babies/young children know and understand ·          Different areas over the country call things differently (e.g- sometimes trousers in Liverpool is called pants) ·          You can’t stop your children from adopting their local dialect ·          Children pick up on dialect and accent very easily, and it’s very difficult to budge ·          People get easily influenced by their peers. Who we associate ourselves with and who we want to be helps shape the way we speak and the accent we adopt. ·          People change their accent when they move to a city so they can fit in ·          People also change the way their accen...

Linguabishes article:   ‘First things first, Im the realest’: Linguistic appropriation, white privilege, and the hip-hop persona of Iggy Azalea Summary Maeve Eberhardt and Kara Freeman analysed the language of hip-hop and  African American English (AAE). They talk about hop-hop and those who are influencing the hip-hop culture are mostly white. they state: " There have been many white rappers who have successfully avoided minstrelsy and mimicry by staying true to their own language backgrounds. These are artists who do not try to prove their validity as members of the hip-hop community...  artists may use normal code-switching, they never completely cross over into linguistic varieties from groups they don’t belong to. " There are white rappers who are trying to pretend to be  someone  they're not, and an example of this is Iggy Azalea. They went on further into the article to talk about how Azalea uses lots of AAE language features and sounds more li...

TASK 1:  Cockney rhyming slang article summary  'Modern Londoners are just as baffled by Cockney slang as the rest of the country' - James Orr Summary: In this article, Orr talks about Cockney rhyming slang and how less common it's becoming in the UK. For one, most Londoners now don't actually understand Cockney rhyming slang and some can't even grasp some basic phrases that other British people may know.  Because of this factor, Cockney rhyming slang is slowly dying out and isn't being used as common anymore as people are not understanding it as well as before. However, younger generations (I think) are trying to keep the "tradition" alive by inventing more rhymes. David Crystal, an honorary professor of linguistics at Bangor University, said "Cockney slang was never very widely known as it started as a secret way for people to talk to each other. As soon as the slang became know the Cockney's stopped using it." He also stated th...