Standard Language Ideology and the Non-Standard Adolescent Speaker

Gates, Shivonne M.; Ilbury, Christian

doi:10.22599/baal1.g

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“…When considering the views and opinions on MLE as conveyed in these sources, we clearly note that negative attitudes prevail over positive ones. This is something which was expected, and which confirms previous findings (Kerswill 2014;Gates and Ilbury 2019;Cardoso et al 2019;Fox 2019a, 2019b;Levon et al 2021;Sharma et al 2022). The positive judgements tend to be seen in contributions from academics and linguists, specifically Rob Drummond, Tony Thorpe and Jonathon Green, whose interest in MLE is mainly linguistic, and highlight the innovative and creative nature of slang.…”

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“…Likewise, MLE is associated with bad behaviour and, more particularly, with the social unrest and riots that took place in London in August 2011. Gates and Ilbury's (2019) paper is broader in scope and considers how standard ideologies can constrain and affect speakers of non-standardised varieties. To this end, they analyse data collected from two groups of young speakers from different areas of London between 2015 and 2017.…”

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“…These reflections could even be extrapolated to other accents which, like MLE, may be stigmatised or regarded as inferior to other varieties. As several scholars have pointed out in a broader context of language change (Trudgill 1975(Trudgill , 1983Cheshire 1982;Edwards 1984;Cheshire and Trudgill 1989;Cheshire et al 2017;Gates and Ilbury 2019), it would be necessary to discuss the traditional notion of 'standard English' further, especially considering the evolution and diffusion of English nowadays;…”

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“…There is a growing literature on many of its innovative phonetic, lexical, grammatical and discourse features, including quotatives (Fox 2012), intensifiers (Núñez and Palacios-Martínez 2018), pragmatic markers (Palacios-Martínez 2015; Torgersen et al 2018), negatives (Lucas and Willis 2012;Palacios-Martínez 2016, 2017, address terms (Palacios-Martínez 2018), verb variation (Cheshire and Fox 2009) and how certain of its vowels and consonants have a different pronunciation from standardised varieties of English (Cheshire et al 2011;Fox 2015). To these investigations, we might add studies focusing on the attitudes of both MLE and non-MLE speakers towards the sociolect 4 itself (Kerswill 2013(Kerswill , 2014Cardoso et al 2019;Gates and Ilbury 2019;Fox 2019a, 2019b;Levon et al 2021;Sharma et al 2022).…”

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Multicultural London English (MLE) as perceived by the press, on social media, and speakers themselves

Martínez

2023

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This paper aims to contribute to the study of Multicultural London English (MLE) by focusing on the perceptions of MLE speakers of their own linguistic production and, also, by exploring the reactions and responses to this variety in the British press and on social media. The results indicate that most of the MLE speakers feel that they use a kind of slang. The majority of accounts found in the media depict MLE as foreign, associated with grime music and bad behaviour. Opinions garnered from social networks show more diverse views; while some reiterate the perceived negative aspects, others highlight its multicultural nature and uniqueness. The paper also suggests measures that could be adopted to change negative attitudes towards MLE.

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Multicultural London English (MLE) as perceived by the press, on social media, and speakers themselves

Martínez

2023

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“…This descriptor not only alludes to the ‘standard’ and upper-class models of speaking (e.g. Rampton 2006; Preece 2009:1; Gates & Ilbury 2019) that he associates with gentrifiers, but also to the disparate economic realities of the two communities, in particular the luxurious and expensive commodities that index the middle class. Thus, as is the effect in extracts (1) and (2) in relation to central London, Sam indexes a distinction between ‘us’, his community, and ‘them’, those residing in the neighbouring and gentrifying area of Shoreditch.…”

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A tale of two cities: The discursive construction of ‘place’ in gentrifying East London

Ilbury¹

2021

Lang. Soc.

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In recent years, the East End of London has been dramatically transformed from a poor, working-class area, to one of the most fashionable neighbourhoods in the world. Adding to a growing body of research which examines the sociolinguistic dynamics of gentrifying neighbourhoods, this article draws on data from two ethnographic projects to examine how young people from the gentrified (i.e. working-class) and gentrifier (i.e. middle-class) communities index place attachment in East London. I demonstrate that for the gentrified community, place attachment is related to the ethnic and cultural genealogy of the immediate, local neighbourhood. Whilst for the gentrifiers, place identity is associated with the cosmopolitan economic and social opportunities of the city. I argue that whilst these communities occupy the same physical neighbourhood, these discourses suggest that they conceptually and socioculturally reside in two very different cities. (Gentrification, place, space, East London)*

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When cultural antagonism does not align with language bias: The sociolinguistic, cultural, and emotional experiences of German immigrants in post-crisis Greece

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2025

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Standard Language Ideology and the Non-Standard Adolescent Speaker

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Multicultural London English (MLE) as perceived by the press, on social media, and speakers themselves

Multicultural London English (MLE) as perceived by the press, on social media, and speakers themselves

A tale of two cities: The discursive construction of ‘place’ in gentrifying East London

When cultural antagonism does not align with language bias: The sociolinguistic, cultural, and emotional experiences of German immigrants in post-crisis Greece

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