ATTITUDES TO LANGUAGE
How slavery and colonization have impacted perceptions about which variety of a language should be spoken.
What are historical factors?
The two most rigid registers.
What are frozen and formal registers?
The CB highlighted when a person is early for an interview.
What is chronemics?
When Creole gradually merges with the standard language.
What is decreolization?
Pride, confidence, and approval can be described as...
What are positive attitudes to language?
'Oh no! Where did I leave my keys?' is an example of this register.
What is private register?
The other name for vocalics.
What is paralanguage?
The dialect resulting from contact between the colonizers and the colonized.
What is Creole?
'Please speak properly' demonstrates this attitude to Creole.
What is a negative attitude?
The register most likely used in conversation between teacher and student or doctor and patient.
What is the consultative register?
A wedding ring is a/an...
What is an artefact?
Conversational English more often spoken than written.
What is Colloquial English?
A major factor (other than historical) that determines the language used in a given situation.
What is social factor?
'Yow dawg, yuh watch di match?' can be both ___ and ___ registers.
What are casual and intimate registers?
'Paula smiled and rubbed her best friend's back' exemplifies these 3 CBs.
What are kinesics, haptics and proxemics?
The three points along the the Post-Creole Continuum.
What are basilect, mesolect and acrolect?