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.

More meanings & reps

Morning all,

This week we will be continuing to work on ensuring our meanings & reps responses are as effective as possible. For most of us, that means integrating as much terminology as possible to support and make way for effective and detailed AO3 comments.

Please look at Thursday's work, which has been returned to you. I have given most of you a specific target to work on. Today can you please make some improvements and corrections to your work, and then type up your improved response - as some of you only managed to write 1-2 paragraphs in the short time we had, can you all ensure that you type up a complete response.

In class tomorrow, we will be doing an entire meanings and representations paper (2 texts, all 3 questions) which I will mark and grade according to the exam board's mark scheme. The texts we are using are linked here. Use the rest of this lesson to prepare for the assessment tomorrow. Remember, terminology is very important here so you really need to focus on this!

Any issues/questions then please let me know!

Meanings & Representations

Morning all,

Continuing with our revision of meanings & reps, please find below some resources to help you.

Firstly, click here for a SlideShare presentation which focuses on AO1. You obviously won't know/use all of these terms however it's a good resource to refer to for terminology and the frameworks. Please make a note of some of these.

Next, read through this article and complete the box at the bottom. Remember, the more articles and perspectives you look at for M&R, the more prepared you'll be for whatever could come up in the exam.

Then, access this PPT and work your way through the tasks to help you to build up to an effective M&R response. We will be doing a timed M&R question in class tomorrow (not for this text though!), so the more prep you do, the better.

Today, aim to write approx. 2 PEED paragraphs for this text, and remember to focus on close analysis of terminology. There are 2 paragraphs already written for you as a model, but these only focus on the 2 opening paragraphs of the article, so you will need to continue from this.

Any issues, let me know.

Language & Identity - Sapir Whorf Hypothesis and 'Woke'

Morning all,

We'll finish watching 'Word of the Year' today, and afterwards will focus on the word 'woke' and its evolution.

Please first read this article regarding the Sapir Whorf hypothesis and summarise it on your blogs you should have a summary about this from Monday, so type this up and add to it after reading the article.

Next, read this article on the word 'woke' and summarise what has happened to the word and its usage - why has it become problematic? Also, please do a short meanings and representations analysis for this article.

Any questions let me know.

Linguistic close analysis practice

Morning all,

As we're revising meanings & representation we need to revise the process of close linguistic analysis. Please find attached an article by Charlie Brooker along with a grid to help you build up some analysis.
Please read the article and fill in the grid which as much detail as you can (and as much terminology as you can) and then write up a response to the question "How does the article use language to create meanings and representations?" on your blog.

The focus today is on terminology, so please ensure you make this central to your work today.

Link to worksheet and article - download a copy to Word.