Accent & Dialect Revision

Morning all,

As promised here is the article on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's code-switching being described as 'verbal blackface' to support our study of code-switching. This article was written by John McWhorter who you may remember from the TED Talk on texting. Please read the article and summarise it either in your notes or on your blog, making links with Ives' 2014 study.

Additionally, here is an article discussing the ComRes 'accents' study that I referenced in class.

For the rest of the lesson please work your way through the following list (summarise on blogs or in your notes):

Milroy's 'Belfast' study (link to help)
Giles 'Capital Punishment' study
Labov's 'Department Store' study
Bernstein and Labov (link to a PPT to help you here)
BBC 'Voices' project
British Library 'Sounds' project
Search for articles from UK newspapers on the topic of accent and dialect

Any questions let me know :)

Enjoy!

Meanings & Representations Exemplar Paragraphs

Morning all,

Please follow this link to access three exemplars for the meanings & reps task.

Use these exemplars to make improvements to your essays.

Gender revision

Morning all,

Following on from Monday's lesson, please complete these language and gender tasks. This will link well as a follow up task to creating your knowledge organisers (we will do the same for regional variations and accent & dialect tomorrow):

Task 1

If you haven't already, please complete your knowledge organiser ensuring that you have outlined all the theories and case studies.

Next, challenge them: what is the criticism of each theory / what debate does it set up? A few sentences is fine.

Task 2

Read the four wider reading articles at the back of the booklet and write a bullet point summary of each. Do this with any other wider reading articles you have found too.

Task 3

For each text, write a paragraph on how the theories are reflected in the argument.