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Evaluate the idea that a person's language is completely determined by the social groups they belong in A person's language can be determined by the particular social groups they belong to. This can include gender, ethnicity, age and social class. William Labov studied the population of Martha's Vineyard and found that the fisherman in the 'up-island' were a desirable kind of social group as they had old-fashioned values. This then affected their language as they spoke non-standard language and had different pronunciations of diphthongs. This was a change from standard pronunciation as the fisherman were from rural areas and had inhabitants that grew up at the time this language was at its peak. It's also worth noting that young men would use this type of pronunciation to identify themselves as native speakers and reject the way of speaking from the mainland. This then shows that language is determined by our social groups as young men actively decided to us...

Labov's New York Department Store (1968) Found that individual speech patterns were part of a highly systematic structure of social and stylistic stratification in the Lower East Side of New York of City. He investigated the difference in the /r/ sound in different words, this can be measured very easily. Three stores in Manhattan, Saks (high class), Macy's (middle class) and Klein (low class) all pronounced /r/ slightly differently. The higher class they were the more frequently they pronounced the /r/.   Labov's Martha's Vineyard (1963) On Martha's Vineyard a small group of fishermen began to exaggerate a tendency already existing in their speech. They did this seemingly subconsciously, in order to establish themselves as an independent social group with superior status to the despised summer visitors. A number of other islanders regarded this group as one which epitomised old virtues and desirable values, and subconsciously imitated the way its members talked...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYyL0y5QY4 Juxtaposition between stereotyped teenage slang and language you'd expect from the time period. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW59mTP1uJI Carner used glottal stops and had an accent that was obviously London British https://sounds.bl.uk/accents-and-dialects Audio bank with multiple different sounds. There is early spoken recordings, children's games and songs and dialects https://www.dialectsarchive.com/england Another audio bank, however these are regional to the Uk https://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/Evolving-English-VoiceBank/021M-C1442X05256X-0101V0 Mr Tickle read in a Hampshire accent

Does social media really influence norms? Use feminism, youtubers, sexuality and gender definitions Social media doesn't keep people confided in boxes, the boxes no longer exist Use list of norms and people who've gone against them https://sailemagazine.com/2017/09/how-new-media-is-sculpting-our-social-norms/ OR Billie Ellish bury a friend Why is sadness becoming people's branding? Why that's problematic The girl who committed suicide and had self harm pictures https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/07/instagram-bans-graphic-self-harm-images-after-molly-russells-death STYLE MODEL https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/07/pupils-etonians-inequality-damian-hinds

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How many Jews can you fit into a limousine? About 50 in the ashtray. This is a joke that many people consider offensive. And that's true; it's not exactly a crowd pleaser. But you might have seen this and laughed. And ,somehow, that is okay as well. The real question here is, where is the line between comedy and offence? Is there even a line at all? "Many people see comedy...as merely funny, but there's more there than just a laugh. Beneath the humor lies a rich layer of social commentary" Says Roger Cohen and Ryan Richards from Humanity in Action. Perhaps if we were to take our joke from before we can see the influence that society has had on comedy. ROUGH PLAN Start with joke, introduce point and "analyse" MAYBE find offensive joke for each point "This isn't the only example" move onto BOM. Find and include thing about people walking out Cross joke, the end of Monty Python (I think) always look on the bright side of ...

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160829-how-laughter-makes-us-better-people https://www.theguardian.com/culture/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/audiences-love-serious-comedy-make-people-laugh http://www.movieoutline.com/articles/why-comedy-makes-everything-better.html https://www.humanityinaction.org/knowledgebase/174-when-the-truth-hurts-tell-a-joke-why-america-needs-its-comedians http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4652099.stm https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/the-most-controversial-comedians-of-all-time/ MY ARTICLE PLAN/IDEAS Main points --- Line between comedy and offence, are we allowed to laugh at someone else's reality?? Should we? Is that right? Maybe just religion????? Comedy is subjective, but needed in society There is a thin line between comedy and offence >>EVIDENCE<< Religion --- Book of Mormon musical, potentially offensive but won nine Tonys. Some people walked out due to content. There are wars over religion, is it an appropriate topic ...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN5R2LWhTrY    EP1 If boys and girls are treated differently, they will act differently Very few differences in their brains Brains development is related to society Experiences teach children different skills and attitudes based on gender Girls underestimate their abilities and have lower confidence and self-esteem The only emotion boys could express well was emotion Girls underestimate, boys overestimate Girls had lower confidence and boys had trouble with sympathy Seeing men and women in professions they don't usually do can help their perceptions Less then 10% of engineers and less than 20% architects are women Boys may be encouraged to play games based on spacial awareness When adults choose toys for children this could lead them to conform to stereotypes, forcing on identity onto them Boys get angry when they don't achieve ambitions and can't verbalize their emotions  Interventions may not work on their own http...

Deborah Tannen's Six Contrasts 1- Status vs Support Men like to feel dominant in conversation whereas women use their language to support the ideas of others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1jzdSzGHnA 2- Independence vs Intimacy Men are concerned with status and don't want to be reliant whereas women want to feel close to the people they communicate with. 3- Advice vs Understanding Men like to offer solutions as they see it as a challenge whereas women want to be empathetic with others and understand their problems. 4- Information vs Feelings Men are concerned with information and details to help them with challenges whereas women want to know people's feelings in order to help. 5- Orders vs Proposals Men like to give orders to show status in given situations whereas women propose ideas so as not to offend people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Vw2XBeDmk 6- Conflict vs Compromise Men cause conflict in order to gain/show status whereas women will com...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2702un On average, men do better in spatial awareness tests etc. and women are better at reading emotions Differences in the brain do not necessarily relate to behavioral differences Monkeys who have not have been socialised still had toy preferences. Boys = trucks  Girls = dolls More males have autism than females Males with autism could show the extreme male profile Higher testosterone shows a more male brain Differences in the brain generally occur in teenage years (13-18). This could be due to their social pressures Pain is more uncomfortable for females. They have less tolerance

http://eslbrains.com/txtng-is-killing-language-jk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAGgKE82034  What speaking style says about you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOce0pijzE0  The new battle of the sexes https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2702un

The Guardian Text A Analysis The Guardian is a newspaper and this text is in the form of an article that was featured. Its purpose is to inform readers of the negative connotations of the noun ‘immigrant’ and the audience is the older generation who read The Guardian. The writer has repeated use of the pronoun ‘they’ in order to highlight how the migrants feel. The lexis ‘they’ isolates he migrants and targets them as a group of people, dehumanising them in the process. This is evident in the quotation ‘they are all migrants’ which not only isolates them but generalises the whole group of individuals by using the lexis ‘all’. The writer realises this issue by stating that ‘we are losing sight of the fact that they are human’ and addresses the dehumanising pronoun ‘they’ but putting it alongside ‘people’: a noun that the reader can relate to. The reader is also able to relate to the syndetic list at the beginning, ‘They are people-men, women and children, fathers and mothers, ...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/23/how-do-you-pronounce-scone-answer-says-a-lot-english-language-day-shakespeare-birthday It is not a matter of being posh, or thinking you are posh...It is more a matter of where you grew up Our language continually reshapes itself though very often we detect changes, we really don't understand why they have taken place The idea horrifies some English language teachers but at the end of the day we have to accept that words and their pronunciation are flexible and changeable They are not fixed entities to be enshrined in stone https://tmrwmagazine.com/accentism-birmingham/ Baratta reports that people often feel as if they have to flatten out their accents to escape judgement but simultaneously feel ashamed at this betrayal of their self-identity it's difficult to foster any kind of pride in our accents when everyone - even academia - keeps telling us how disgusting we sound. As a society, we need to recognise the eff...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qtnz https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/english/as-and-a-level/english-language-7701-7702 http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/specifications/AQA-7701-7702-SP-2015.PDF http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.co.uk/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000mk0  Word of Mouth by Michael Rosen Bold=quote Multicultural London English (MLE) is more than just slang. Its a way that all young people from multicultural backgrounds speak 'Queen's English', more traditional. Other MLE users may not be able to judge whether someone else is MLE if they use this type of speaking People's accent can be a barrier for communication Media and musicians have popularized MLE People who speak MLE do not refer to it by that name. The term MLE is used by linguists. Some people call it Londonese etc. Linguists call it MLE to stress its an immensely multili...

The writer has an obvious bias which is established early on in the article. She writes 'what the hell is Superdrug playing at?'. This rhetorical question not only lets the reader know she disagrees with Superdrug's decision but it also mirrors the thoughts many readers will have when learning this news. It is effective as it allows the reader to reflect on their own views on the event. As well as using bias to portray her opinion, the writer uses a professional opinion to emphasis she is not alone. The expert opinion she uses is from 'medical director of NHS' who says cosmetic procedures can be ' "a crisis waiting to happen" '. The use of a professional opinion allows the reader to see another view which is very similar to her own, almost as if she is trying to convince the reader to share her views. The writer considers that some products in Superdrug are already damaging to people's self esteem as she writes there is 'a darker side t...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/28/amazon-ambassadors-twitter-hard-work-passion-for-employer The subject of this article is the cheerful attitudes of Amazon workers on the company's twitter and how this attitude is somewhat expected. The audience are people who work as it says '(in today's economy) It is not enough to go to work and collect a paycheck...you are increasingly expected to profess a passion for your job'. This article's purpose is to inform workers that attitudes towards work are just as important as the work they put in. I like this article because I hadn't taken into consideration just how important an employee's views on where they work are to an employer and how 'emotional labour' is an 'important part of the job'. In-Depth Analysis The phrase 'You are increasingly expected to act as if your work makes you happy' introduces the core message and purpose of the article. It zones in on the how so...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/21/why-do-people-bend-to-the-tyrannical-pressures-of-social-media-lets-get-real This article is about how social media influences our decisions, even to the point it becomes the 'No.1 consideration when deciding where to holiday'. The audience are people who regularly use social media as it mentions the dangers of social media and how the lines can become blurred between reality and a persona. The article's purpose is to inform how powerful social media is and we do not always realize how it is able to effect us. I like this article because I use social media myself and it is interesting to see what I'm contributing to and how it might be affecting me. In-Depth Analysis The purpose of the article is introduced early on in the article through the rhetorical question 'Who are we being real with and who are we performing for?'. This is highly effective as it allows the reader to reflect on their involvement w...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/24/bake-off-vegan-week-rest-of-tv-cookery-shows The subject of this article is how little representation there is of vegans and vegetarians in cooking programmes as the Great British Bake Off recently revealed it would have it's own vegan week, highlighting the lack of TV shows catering to vegans and vegetarians alike. The audience the article is directed to is anyone interested in food as it demonstrates how popular the lifestyle has become as the Great British Bake Off 'honors the rise of veganism'. I think the purpose of the article is to show the influence cooking programmes can have on what we eat. As we become more aware of what our food choice's effects are on the environment we may want more recipes that don't have as catastrophic, long-lasting pressures on our planet. I like the article because it portrays how the media can influence us and how it can help us to change our ways, making the world a better...