The Analytical Piece

Keep In Mind
As you write your second Reflective pieceYou are deliberately putting in the FOUR elements which you are required to analyse in the Analytical piece.

The Four Elements

Dialectal Variation Language Registers Communicative Behaviours Attitude to Language

Language Register
Languages have five (5) language registersfive language styles. registers/styles the appropriate use of language is a matter of situation. The use of the appropriate register depends on the audience, the topic, and the purpose for the communication
Frozen Register: Pledge of Allegiance, Lords Prayer, Preamble to Constitution. Unchanging, fixed form (language that remains fixed/unchanged) Formal/Academic Register: Interviews, academic language in classroom (lectures, instructionmini-lessons), public speaking Consultative Register: Talking to a boss/supervisor/teacher, lawyer, doctor, Counselor (asking for assistance) Casual (Informal) Register: Talking with friends, slang (writing drafts should allow casual before the formal draft because it gets the information out on the paper) Intimate Register: Language of lovers, sexual harassment (not for public information)

Register
Two Major Registers
Formal Standard English Informal - Creole Various levels of Creole

Registers
Also to be included in your discussion The impact of the various registers, how they operate to influence the following
Tone, mood Class/Social distinction Cultural distinction Distinguishing relationship

Language Registers Examples

Formal Ex. 1 Handout Ex.. 2 Gloria! What does this mean? Mr. King thundered. He whipped the sheet from the bed and flung it at the hapless girl, who cowered in the doorway. I sorry, sir, she stammered. De mistress did tell meh to bring de breakfast come hurry, so ah did leave off de beds fuh afterwards. Her trembling hands rearranged her ornhi so that it partly hid her face. How you get hired to work in this house, I will never know! You coolies cant even talk English. Martin, leave the poor child be, his wife remonstrated, pulling the girl almost caressingly toward her. And please dont refer to the servants in derogatory terms. Its so demeaning, not only to them, but to us as well. There, child, he means no harm As Gloria hurried from the house in tears, Old Vava muttered under her breath, de jumbie goin tek he one a dese days, ah fos he weeckeed, oui

Language Registers
Formal Mr. King and wife. Use Standard English. Establishes social/class distinction Informal Gloria- uses a basilectal Indian creole. bring .. Come hurry. Separates her from Upper class. Distinguish ethnic difference, peculiarity. Informal- Mr. Kings language is not strictly SE. He uses an acrolectal Creole, so that we can also identify Dialectal Variation in the piece A mesolect is a register whose character falls somewhere between the prestige of the acrolect and the informality of the basilect

Try to include when you write your second piece

In situations where a creole remains in contact with the dominant language, a creole continuum can arise whereby greater contact with the dominant language will cause decreolisation and the creole will come to resemble the standard language more. The Mesolect is a register whose character falls somewhere between the prestige of the acrolect and the informality of the basilect . The term refers to any of the varieties that fall in the intermediate ranges The Acrolect is the variety of the creole which is closest to the standard The Basilect is the most distinct variety, furthest from the standard

Jamaican Creole Examples

Where is it? SE A wier i de?Mesolect A we i de? Basilect I didnt eat any A in nyam non Mu na bin nyam non

SE to Basilect- The Range

I told him_ SE I tol him Acrolect I tol im- Mesolect I tell him- Mesolect I tell im Mesolect Ah tel im Mesolect Me tel he - Basilect Me tel e - Basilect Me tel am - Basilect

Communicative Behaviours
Slap Laugh Smile He flung it at the hapless girl Trembling hands arranged the ornhi so that it partly hid her face Pulling the girl caressingly toward her

Attitudes to Language
Shows intent of the speaker- to insult, to coax, to denote particular relationship Shows how the speaker views different registers, and what impression he hopes to create by his choice of register in any given context May reveal the speakers bias/prejudice in terms of class/age/religion and other cultural practices etc Is very specifically related to the use of Language Is not one characters attitude toward another

Attitudes to Language
Example 1- Handout Amlie uses the words White Cockroach to insult Antoinette.The word white, though it would normally, in this context, be used to identify the upper echelon, tales on here a pejorative meaning. When linked to the cockroach, it clearly defines Antoinette as a less than acceptable person.

Attitudes to Language
The narrator uses the term child in reference to Amlie Attitudes to Language ie, perhaps to signify age and position in the household, but Antoinette does not accept this and see nothing child-like in Amlies behaviour.

Attitudes to Language
Is present when a word that has a particular accepted meaning is used in to mean something else. E.g. Yeah right, I believe you! This would be used to mean the exact opposite. Even with the first two words alone, there is heavy sarcasm which tell the reader that the speaker does not believe a word that he is hearing.