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1. Some key words (AO1)
Creole: [...] a pidgin language which has become the native language of a speech
community, and therefore has become expanded again, and acquired all the
functions and characteristics of a full natural language." (Peter Trudgill 2000:3)
Pidgin: "[...] a lingua franca which has no native speakers; derived from a 'normal
language' through simplification, reduction and interference or admixture from the
native language or languages of those who use it [...] (Peter Trudgill 2000:9)
Lingua franca: "[...] a language which is used as a means of communication among
people who have no native language in common." (Peter Trudgill 2000:7)

2. The Slave Trade
The Caribbean has a long history of colonisation, and British planters
began to settle in Jamaica in the middle of the 17th century. They
started large sugar plantations and needed slave labour to run
them, and for the following two centuries, slaves from different
African countries were continuously brought to Jamaica.
The need for a common language was obvious since the number of
languages spoken within the slave community was great, and slaves
with a common mother tongue were deliberately separated to
prevent rebellion .
Since English was the least common denominator, a pidgin variety of
English arose, and was used as a lingua franca amongst the slaves
but also between slave traders. After a time, the slaves had children
who grew up in a pidgin-speaking environment and learnt the
pidgin as their first language. Thus the pidgin became a creole.
Other Creole languages are spoken in the Pacific area (including
New Guinea and Hawaii), North Australia, and off the coast of
Africa, in the Cape Verde Islands to the West, and in Mauritius and
Seychelles to the East.

3. Amazing Grace

4. Jamaican Creole to BBE
In the 1950s and 1960s people from the
Caribbean migrated to Britain in relatively
large numbers. Most of these settled in
cities, especially in the large English
cities, and in most of these communities
people from Jamaica were more numerous
than people from other parts of the
Caribbean.
British Black English is therefore most
similar to Jamaican Creole, because of
the larger number of Jamaicans who
settled in this country.

5. Jamaican English
What is usually referred to as 'Black English' in
Britain, is the Jamaican Creole or Patois, which
is spoken by the Black Caribbean community
living mainly in London , but other parts of GB
too, even though the London community are
the largest. There are obviously other black
ethnic groupings in Britain, but none of the
same magnitude.

6. CODE SWITCHING
(AO3)
People of Afro-Caribbean descent who
have been born in Britain nearly always
learn the local variety of British English
as their first language. Usually, they
speak and understand Creole as well
but use it less often than British
English. Especially in private, informal
conversations, both British English and
Creole may be used.
When a speaker "switches" from one
language variety to another in the
course of the same
conversation - sometimes even within
one sentence - this is called code
switching. It is common behaviour
among bilinguals of all kinds (though
in some communities, it is frowned
upon).

7. Transcript

8. Research (AO2)
Mark Sebba studied London
Jamaican in the 90s and concluded
that the new generation speakers
born into London’s Caribbean
communities speak a variety
influenced by Jamaican
Creole, Cockney & RP.
Sue Fox studied “Multi-ethnic
youth dialect” which she
rechristened Multicultural London
English (MLE) although this is
also spreading to other big cities.
She found that speakers of the
dialect are drawn from
white, black and Asian
communities alike. It is a
genuine, evolving dialect.

9. Research (AO2)
In a study by language and education specialist
Viv Edwards, The West Indian language issue in
British schools, language – the Creole spoken by
the students – was singled out as an important
factor disadvantaging Caribbean children in
British schools. The study cites negative
attitudes of teachers towards any non-standard
variety noting that;
"The teacher who does not or is not prepared to
recognise the problems of the Creole-speaking child in
a British English situation can only conclude that he
is stupid when he gives either an inappropriate
response or no response at all. The stereotyping
process leads features of Creole to be stigmatised and
to develop connotations of, amongst other things, low
academic ability.“

10. Mr Oxford Don
Using the wordle
identify any
lexis/phonology that
varies from the standard
Can you pick out any
semantic fields in the
poem

11. Thinking about Section B
How is the language
issue represented?
How does the
author represent
himself and
others?
How do they
shape the
reader’s
response?
(audience
positioning)

12. London Riots
• What's happened is that a substantial section
of the chavs that you wrote about have
become black. The whites have become black.
A particular sort of
violent, destructive, nihilistic gangster
culture has become the fashion, and black
and white, boy and girl operate in this
language together. This language which is
wholly false, a Jamaican patois that's been
intruded in England, and that's why so many
of us have the sense of literally a foreign
country.