LING 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ethnolect, Hypercorrection, White Privilege
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When some triggering force makes an ethnic distinction important to a society. (cid:1) Americans), incoming immigrant groups (caribbean english), multiple new groups (russian, ethiopian). (cid:1) Marking your ethnic identity includes using strategies such as heritage language (spanish), code-switching (spanglish), pronunciation and grammar features, even features from another language variety. Speakers make choices to perform multiple aspects of their identity at the same time. (cid:1) African american english is the most studied ethnic variety. Naming a group or a variety emphasizes its distinctiveness, its markedness, and implies that un-named groups are normal and names ones are not. Ethnolect- an ethnic variety of a language or dialect. Ethnic hypercorrection- when people use a feature associated with their ethnic group even less often than non-members of the group. Enclaves- a distinctly bounded geographic area in which many residents share an ethnicity or other social characteristic. Ethnonym- a name or term for an ethnic group.
