LING 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Heritage Language, Contrastive Analysis, Heterosexuality
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School is a place of identity creation, intense interaction, and socialization where language ideologies can be implemented or resisted. Students use language features to define themselves, to identify with particular groups. Trendy kids use trendy language, and wanna-bes use even more. Kids who reject trendiness reject trendy language (bad kids, nerds). Bernstein"s hypothesis- an attempt to explain school failure, influential with teachers. Working-class speakers have a restricted code which is grammatically simple with few coordinations, adjectives, and adverbs. The context-free language of school privileges elaborated code. Responses to bernstein include labov stating that working-class speech isn"t all that simple. Heath stated that many kids write a lot just not in school. Problems come from ignorance of educators and pundits. Self-fulfilling prophecies- teachers expect less of some students, so they teach them less. Assumption that bilingual or home language education slows acquisition of dominant language. Clarke believed that school teachers are less likely to value local language.
