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We establish our identity through our use of language your spider diagrams showing different aspects of your identity gender, class etc gave examples of how you use language differently in different situations
mauve, lovely, adorable, sweet, cute mate, okay, bollocks, footie
blade, slide, rigger, back stops Like, so, totally, mint, minging
Language can be a powerful means of exercising social control if you belong to a particular group, this means adopting the linguistic conventions of that group can you think of any groups you are part of in which you have to use particular kinds of language? Identity, whether it is or, an individual, social or institutional level, is something which we are constantly building and negotiating all our lives through our interaction with others
Systems of Address
The way people address you the degree of formality, intimacy or status affects the communication e.g Mr, boy, Sir, mate etc
"What's your name boy?" "Dr Poussaint. I'm a physician. "What's your first name, boy?" "Alvin." (Ervin Tripp, I980: 22)
Language fits with other indicators of social identity and group membership such as style of clothes, type of haircut and taste in music. How would the people in the pictures address each other?
Another part of hippy fashion is the language of the subculture. English exploded with many new words in the '60s.
Ball: To have sex. Flaky: Someone unreliable, untrustworthy. City: Following certain words indicating a profoundness or a lot of the previous word. Burn: To get ripped off Bread: Money.
THE LANGUAGE
Astral Plane: A dimension of existence beyond the physical world. A place where disembodied spirits dwell. Many attempt to contact the astral plane through meditation or by using psychic energy. Bag: What you're into. Your profession/obsession. What you enjoy. "I hear your bag's nude meditation on acid!"
Groove: A good habit or style. Bogart: To hog a joint while others are waiting.