ROB DRUMMOND

• Research on the characteristic speech of a group of young people, excluded from school. did mock interviews
• spoke in MLE and said words like 'bruv' 'mandem' 'you get me'
• the young people spoke in a combination of standard english, regional dialect and age-appropriate sociolect
• "we all style shift according to context"
• during the mock interviews, their usual speech style wasnt present and they spoke professionally
• usually use words such as 'rapid' and 'man' as a pronoun