Ethnicity

• define ethnicity 


  the quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share common cultural background or descent.
• define race 


  race refers to the concept of dividing people into groups on the basis of various sets of physical characteristics + the process of ascribing social meaning to these groups
• Drummons 


  MLE of sociolect of young people in Manchester. MUBE multicultural urban British English. MLE but more regional.
• Kerswill


  MLE will replace cockney rhyming slang
• Rampton 


  MLE is spread through friendship groups
• what is MLE?


  lexical "peng " and "creps"

  Grammatical - sentence may be contrusted by starting 'why' and enticing ending 'for'. Replaces the first - person singular pronoun

  Phonological - th-stopping where
• Khan 


  ethnicity is central factor which influences peoples language
• code switching 


  all languages users can move between different types of languages, shifting from one style to another depending on the context of the conversation
• Rampton and Harris 


  Deficit - there is something lacking

  Difference - there is nothing wrong with language variety, its just different

  Domination - the various languages should be oppressed

  Discourse - language its cultural + community use cannot be easily defined
• ethnolect 


  language variety that marks speakers as members of a ethnic group who orginally used another language (e.g. language used by one ethnic group)
• multiethnolect 


  language formed from several minority groups use to collectively express their minority status