This article is about how some words are gendered and ‘the man prefix compounds the idea that men are aggressive and women are always pleasing, always good, never in the way, and that they can’t act up sometimes themselves.’
Sunday, 27 September 2015
Why should ‘manspreading’ be just for men? - Zoe Jewell
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/28/manspreading-men-oxford-dictionary-sitting-position-gendered
This article is about how some words are gendered and ‘the man prefix compounds the idea that men are aggressive and women are always pleasing, always good, never in the way, and that they can’t act up sometimes themselves.’
This article is about how some words are gendered and ‘the man prefix compounds the idea that men are aggressive and women are always pleasing, always good, never in the way, and that they can’t act up sometimes themselves.’
Erin McKean - Go ahead, make new words!
https://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_go_ahead_make_up_new_words#t-168965
Lexicographer Erin McKean encourages — nay, cheerleads — her audience to create new words when the existing ones won’t quite do. She lists out 6 ways to make new words in English, from compounding to “verbing,” in order to make language better at expressing what we mean, and to create more ways for us to understand one another.
Lexicographer Erin McKean encourages — nay, cheerleads — her audience to create new words when the existing ones won’t quite do. She lists out 6 ways to make new words in English, from compounding to “verbing,” in order to make language better at expressing what we mean, and to create more ways for us to understand one another.
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
John McWhorter - Txtng is Killing Our Language. JK!!
https://www.ted.com/talks/john_mcwhorter_txtng_is_killing_language_jk
Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there’s much more to texting — linguistically, culturally — than it seems, and it’s all good news.
Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there’s much more to texting — linguistically, culturally — than it seems, and it’s all good news.
Steven Pinker - What Our Lanuage Habits Reveal
https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_language_and_thought
- Language change - descriptive attitudes towards language.
- Prescriptive/Descriptive.
- Language emerges from our human minds, interacting with one another.
- Visible in unstoppable change in language: slang, jargon, historical change, dialect, divergence, language formation.
- Communication Model - sender, message, receiver.
- Words used in different ways/have different meanings in different contexts.
- We use euphemistic language when speaking about awkward subjects, e.g. drugs, sex, using the toilet.
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Form, Purpose, Audience
Form- The Independent newspaper article.
Purpose- To review a recently released album.
Audience- Young adults/People who like that sort of music.
http://www.foodnetwork.co.uk/recipes/simple-bolognese.html
Form- A food network recipe.
Purpose- To inform people how to make bolognese.
Audience- People who are looking for something simple and easy to cook.
http://www.stylist.co.uk/people/teenage-diaries
Form- Magazine article/Diary entries.
Purpose- To entertain/for themselves.
Audience- Young adults (women)/themselves.
http://www.theguardian.com/cartoons/archive
Form- Newspaper/Cartoons.
Purpose- Comedy/Make people laugh.
Audience- Adults(mainly men?).
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jul/25/the-20-photographs-of-the-week
Form- The Guardian newspaper article.
Purpose- To make people think/to shock.
Audience- People who like photography/aimed more so at adults.
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Interesting Articles about Slang
- 11 weirdest words added to online Oxford dictionary from 'bants' to 'manspreading' http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/11-weirdest-words-added-to-online-oxford-dictionary-from-bants-to-manspreading-10474545.html?origin=internalSearch
- Harris Academy Upper Norwood in Croydon gets 'Outstanding' Ofsted rating after banning 'urban slang words' in school http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/harris-academy-upper-norwood-in-croydon-gets-outstanding-ofsted-rating-after-banning-urban-slang-words-in-school-10420586.html?origin=internalSearch
Article Summaries and Comparison
1. "All raait! It's a new black-white lingo" (Sunday Times-11/12/05)
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/article209405.ece
This article is about how the English language is evolving - different languages are influencing the terminology of young people across the country, creating a 'multi-ethnic dialect'.
The article heavily relies on the research of Professor Paul Kerswill (who is a sociolinguist at Lancaster University) to get its point across. Kerswill suggested that young people in London are developing a 'local dialect' by intertwining various words from other countries with English. For example words from the Indian language, such as "creps" which means trainers. Kerswill thinks young people are doing so to 'mark themselves out culturally and socially'; they are also thought to be influenced by music artists, for example, the rapper Dizzy Rascal. Kerswill believes that speaking in such a way will become a part of the everyday English language in the next 20 years.
We also learn from the article that some concerns, have, however, emerged over the use of the dialect. For example at a school in south London, this way of speaking has been banned in the classroom as the schools way of trying to 'improve results'.
The article is later concluded with a quote from the head teacher;he says that he wants to teach the children that there's a 'time and a place' for patois.
2. "From the mouths of teens" (The Independent-5/11/06)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/from-the-mouths-of-teens-422688.html
This second article from the Independent discusses relatively the same points as the previous article but goes into a lot more depth with what all the slang words actually mean. The article starts with a conversation of two teenagers on a bus. This conversation shows a huge range of examples of slang words, for example, "Safe man", "What endz you from?" and "Wasteman".
Further on in the article, a 13 year old boy explains that everyone in his school speaks like how he boys on the bus did and he also explains how if you don't speak like it you will be uncool. 'Nobody wants to be uncool' he says. This shows that patois is becoming normal and, like the previous article its becoming a 'cool' thing to do;its becoming socially acceptable.
Just like the previous one, this article also uses quotes to get its point across. Sue Fox (a language expert from London University's Queen Mary College), states that young people from different backgrounds and origins all spoke with the same dialect. This suggests that the way young people are speaking is influencing other young people, making multi-ethnic dialect increasingly popular.
To conclude, both of these articles are very similar as they both explain what is happening to the modern English language today and what is influencing young people to speak in such a way.
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/article209405.ece
This article is about how the English language is evolving - different languages are influencing the terminology of young people across the country, creating a 'multi-ethnic dialect'.
The article heavily relies on the research of Professor Paul Kerswill (who is a sociolinguist at Lancaster University) to get its point across. Kerswill suggested that young people in London are developing a 'local dialect' by intertwining various words from other countries with English. For example words from the Indian language, such as "creps" which means trainers. Kerswill thinks young people are doing so to 'mark themselves out culturally and socially'; they are also thought to be influenced by music artists, for example, the rapper Dizzy Rascal. Kerswill believes that speaking in such a way will become a part of the everyday English language in the next 20 years.
We also learn from the article that some concerns, have, however, emerged over the use of the dialect. For example at a school in south London, this way of speaking has been banned in the classroom as the schools way of trying to 'improve results'.
The article is later concluded with a quote from the head teacher;he says that he wants to teach the children that there's a 'time and a place' for patois.
2. "From the mouths of teens" (The Independent-5/11/06)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/from-the-mouths-of-teens-422688.html
This second article from the Independent discusses relatively the same points as the previous article but goes into a lot more depth with what all the slang words actually mean. The article starts with a conversation of two teenagers on a bus. This conversation shows a huge range of examples of slang words, for example, "Safe man", "What endz you from?" and "Wasteman".
Further on in the article, a 13 year old boy explains that everyone in his school speaks like how he boys on the bus did and he also explains how if you don't speak like it you will be uncool. 'Nobody wants to be uncool' he says. This shows that patois is becoming normal and, like the previous article its becoming a 'cool' thing to do;its becoming socially acceptable.
Just like the previous one, this article also uses quotes to get its point across. Sue Fox (a language expert from London University's Queen Mary College), states that young people from different backgrounds and origins all spoke with the same dialect. This suggests that the way young people are speaking is influencing other young people, making multi-ethnic dialect increasingly popular.
To conclude, both of these articles are very similar as they both explain what is happening to the modern English language today and what is influencing young people to speak in such a way.
Frameworks
Phonetics, Phonology and Prosodics
How speech sounds and effects are articulated and analysed.
Graphology
The visual aspects of textual design and appearance.
Lexis and Semantics (words and their meanings)
The vocabulary of English, including social and historical variation.
Grammar, including morphology
The structural patterns and shapes of English at sentence, clause, phrase and word level.
Pragmatics (context/meaning)
The contextual aspects of language use.
Discourse
Extended stretches of communication occurring in different genres, modes and contexts.
How speech sounds and effects are articulated and analysed.
Graphology
The visual aspects of textual design and appearance.
Lexis and Semantics (words and their meanings)
The vocabulary of English, including social and historical variation.
Grammar, including morphology
The structural patterns and shapes of English at sentence, clause, phrase and word level.
Pragmatics (context/meaning)
The contextual aspects of language use.
Discourse
Extended stretches of communication occurring in different genres, modes and contexts.
Grammar and Punctuation test
http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/quiz/2013/feb/04/grammar-punctuation-quiz-test
'In June, year 6 pupils will sit a National Test in spelling, grammar and punctuation. But how good is your knowledge? Take our quiz for students, teachers and grammar fans'
'In June, year 6 pupils will sit a National Test in spelling, grammar and punctuation. But how good is your knowledge? Take our quiz for students, teachers and grammar fans'
AQA Specification-English Language AS
http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/english/gcse/english-language-4705/spec-at-a-glance
This page shows the specification for AS and A level English Language
This page shows the specification for AS and A level English Language
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