Again, thanks to the 8 of you who came along. It's good to see so many of you that care about going out of your way to achieve.
To begin with, here is the question we looked at:
" Using this extract as a starting point, discuss how peoples’ attitudes towards non-standard dialects can differ and affect how language is used."
Before we went anywhere, we looked at the theories which we can apply to this discussion.
Please familiarise yourselves with the following:
Donald MacKinnon (1996) categorises
the attitudes people may have to language use:
lLanguage
use as correct or incorrect
lLanguage
use as
pleasant or ugly
lLanguage
examples as socially
acceptable or unacceptable
lLanguage
examples as morally
acceptable or unacceptable
lLanguage
examples as appropriate or inappropriate in their context
Jean Aitchison
•The Three Possibilities in Language
Change
•A
slow decay
i. the ‘damp
spoon’ syndrome
ii. the ‘crumbling
castle’ view
iii. the ‘infectious
disease’
assumption
Please also have, in front of you, the 'Standard/Non-Standard' booklet which I gave out to you just before the half term.
If you don't have it, here are the texts we will be using.
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