1Define social construct
Product of 2 or more people making something through interaction
2Example of a social construct
Ethnicity and race
3Define ethnicity
Shared social identity consisting of cultural practices, language, beliefs and history
4Define race
Physical characteristics of distinct populations within larger species
5Define heritage language
Not dominant language in society where someone lives, but it's spoken at home
6Define code switching
Speaker switches to different language mid-conversation/sentence
7What does MLE stand for?
Multicultural London English
8How did MLE start?
Widespread migration from Caribbean to UK after WW2
Influence from West Africa and South Asia as well
Influence of Jamaican Patois
9When did MLE emerge?
Early 1980s
10Who speaks MLE?
Young
Working class
Especially African Caribbean ancestry
118 phonological features of MLE
No H-dropping
Vowel sounds in centre and front of mouth
Long sounds in *right, now, go* and *do*
ee more relaxed
oo in front of mouth (sounds French)
D*eer* monophthong instead of diphthong
th-fonting
Glottal stops
12Lexical features of MLE
You get me?
Bare
Rass
Mandem
13Who stated that "the whites have become black" when talking about MLE?
David Starkey
14What does MUBE stand for?
Multicultural Urban British English
15Difference between MLE and MUBE
MLE = London
MUBE = any area outside of London