ASE Make Up Work

Those students who missed two or more lessons during the semester must read the following texts (available from Copisteria X) and answer the following questions:

1. Jason Jones,”Language and Social Class” in Language, Society and Power, 2^nd Edn. London, Routledge, 2004, pp. 134-155

2. Suzanne Labelle, “Introduction”; J.L. Kam-Mei “Asia’s Englishes and World Englishes: Interview with Braj B. Kachru” in The Language, Society and Power Reader, London, Routledge, 2011, pp.325-336

Text 1 Questions

(i) Are the diagrams showing the relationship between prestige, social class and linguistic variety valid for all countries in which English is spoken?

(ii) Is it possible for a speaker of dialect not to use a regional accent?

(iii) How do “covert prestige forms” work?

(iv) What did Trudgill’s research on language use in Norwich reveal about social class and prestige language forms?

(v) In Williams and Kerswill’s study on adolescent speakers in Reading, Milton Keynes and Hull, what was discovered about Estuary English features?

Text 2 Questions

(i) How can English be a “linguistic weapon”?

(ii) What is Kachru's opinion about the work of (a) Graddol, (b) McArthur, (c) Crystal?

(iii) What is the difference between “Genetic Nativeness” and “Functional Nativeness”?

(iv) What role does Kachru see for translation?

You may leave your answers (printed please, not handwritten) in my pigeon-hole in VSR or else send them to me, as an attachment, via email.