Thursday, 10 December 2015

idiolect

At work: -I use Manners because it's expected and respectful -Speak clear and stress phonemes because I'm speaking to people who're in charge of me and I have to respect them -Politeness With family: -Please and thank you -"All good in the hood" -My mum uses the word "supper" Friends: -Slang -Picking up phrases like "Slash" -Cockney rhyming slang -Taboo -"meaty nikes" -Abbreviations College: -Higher prestige to sound more clever -Polite Media: -Tend to pick up vocab from The Simpsons