Language and Ethnicity (society variations)

This series of A Level lessons looks at aspects of ethnicity and language such as the following: social and linguistic hierarchies, linguistic racism, attitudes to variations and native speakerism.

It covers the work and ideas from linguists such as Clark, McWhorter, Holliday, Baker-Bell, Fought, Ogbu and more.

It considers questions such as ‘is native speakerism racist?’ , ‘how does ethnicity interplay with language use in the USA?’ and ‘are white people ethnic?’ and focuses especially on the example of AAVE/ Black Language / the ‘Ebonics’ controversy.