Kanye for president 2020. . .

Article 1 - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3247863/Kanye-West-confirms-plan-run-president-2020-calls-Ben-Carson-brilliant-guy-revealing-spent-weeks-trying-contact-Republican-hopeful.html

Article 2 - http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/03/why-kanye-west-would-be-the-best-president-in-us-history-seriously

The article in The Guardian is different to the article in the Daily Mail in many different ways. Firstly The Daily Mail uses quotes from an interview with Kanye West where as The Guardian uses quotes from several of Kanye's songs and talks about what kind of president this could make him. The mail is more about Kanye's views on becoming president, when speaking in an interview on this topic Kanye said '' I’ve got five years before I go and run for office and I’ve got a lot of research to do, I’ve got a lot of growing up to do. '' Where as the guardian seems focused on What type of president he might become based on the lyrics he uses in his music ''And if you're losin' your high then smoke again- Get 'em high (2004)'' They use this lyric to suggest that West will probably be pro-drug reform.
The Daily Mail also seems to be more formal than the Guardian as it uses facts and quotes whereas The Guardian seems to be making suggestions and accusations towards what Kanye is going to do if he is elected leader. '' West said; 'It’s fun to be a rock star, and I’ll never not be one I guess, but there’ll be a point where I become my mother’s child. 

'With all the things I’ve done that people would consider to be accomplishments, what’s the point where I become the person that Donda and Raymond West raised? My parents’ child.' '' -The Daily Mail

'' He understands whats wrong with contemporary america: 'The system broken, the schools closed, the prisons open- power(2010)' '' - The Guardian 

The Daily Mail also has more mixed media than The Guardian...

The Daily Mail contains:

• Images
• Text
• Videos
• Links
• Quotes
• summary
• captions
• headline

The Guardian contains:

• Text
• Images
• Quotes
• Headline

The use of mixed mode in The Daily Mail makes the article more appealing as most people would rather look at a piece of text that has images and colour to accompany it rather than a wall of writing.

English Language Poems. . .

Love's Language By Ella Wheeler Wilcox - http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-s-language/

This poem describes the way love is portrayed using the English language and body language, and how someone who has fallen in love would behave. I think that this poem is about one person falling in love with another and eventually finding out that the other person loves them back. This poem starts each stanza with a rhetorical question asking how love speaks and then this question is answered throughout the rest of the stanza. The poem has five verses and it also uses several rhyming couplets (e.g... 'fire' and 'higher')


English Language By Linda Winchell - http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/english-language-2/

This poem explains how the English language is both perfect and imperfect with all of the ways language is graded with grammar spelling and nouns ect and how everyone makes mistakes and can still understand what each other are saying. This poem contains 11 stanzas and has rhyming couplets (e.g... 'told' and 'bold'). I like this poem as it shows how despite having an extremely complex language full of perfect words for everything we are still able to understand the mistakes we make and how we are able to understand what other people mean when they make grammatical errors.

My language themed poem:

Language is used all over the globe,
Used to love,
Used to hate,
Used for all of the above,

Language is written across the world,
Written to show you care,
Written to show emotion,
Written to show your there,

Language is spoken on every continent,
Spoken in grief,
Spoken in happiness,
Spoken to show relief,

Language is shown over Earth,
Shown through stance,
Shown through actions,
Shown through dance,

Language is interpreted by everyone,
Interpreted in art,
Interpreted in life,
Interpreted in death,

Language has many modes.

Youth speech article. . .

If you look at the change in the English language over the last 20 years you might think that it is not the same language at all.

Slang/abbreviations 

Over the last 5 years a new type of dialect has emerged in the English language, with words like 'Fleek' (looking good) and 'Bae' (before anyone else) being used more and more in daily conversations between friends. More words have been emerging in the last 2 years because of things like social media which are causing these words to become so popular.The use of this 'text speech' is baffling parents and adults who don't have any link to social media as they are hearing it more often when out in public. A survey was carried out and 86% of parents who took part in the survey said that they felt teens spoke an entirely different language on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. This is proof that the English language is evolving over time into a set of sub-languages frequently used by young people across the British Isles.

Fillers

When you think of fillers you most likely think of 'um' and 'er' but now teenagers are using words as fillers such as 'Like'. The use of word fillers is infuriating to several people such as actress Emma Thompson who says that this makes her feel ''insane''. However some Language experts say that this is simply a way of breaking up sentences as our brains process what to say next. John Ayto editor of the oxford dictionary of slang says, ''Fillers are a way we all stall time when speaking and historically always have. it has nothing to do with sloppiness''. But why does this irritate some people? Robert Groves explains that ''using 'um may seem more correct to Emma Thompson because using 'like' as a filler is not a feature in her language'' So if a word is not a feature of some peoples idiolect they can become confused as to why they use it and the more often they hear this word the more aggravated they become. We all have our own quirky phrases and we pick them up and pass them on from person to person so the example of the word 'like' it has caught on by being passed from friend to friend. if they (young people) do deploy the sort of language they're using on the streets in formal settings then it could well be a disadvantage to them but at other times its quite clearly the way they get along, the way that they signal they belong in a group, the way that they fit in.'' ''And we all do that in out professional lives as well. We've got all our acronyms and our little words that we use to send a signal.- I'm one of the club'' says Professor Clive Upton.


Sources-  http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/01/icymi-english-language-is-changing-faster-than-ever-says-expert

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11426737

How diversity in English Language is valued. . .

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/article209405.ece - last accessed 15/09/15

It's all raait! It's a new black-white lingo

In this article linguists have discovered England's first multi-ethnic dialect; meaning that we have adapted to speaking using phrases, words and sounds from places all around the world. The most prominent ones seem to be Cockney, Geordie, Jamaican Creole and Bengali. It seems that this type of speech is becoming more and more popular amongst people in England as the cultural diversity increases. The majority of people appear to be thinking that this is a great thing for London as it is allowing people to mix with several cultures and have more diverse friendship groups. This type of speech has mostly been affecting young people and teens as they are growing through online role-models and their presence in social media. However some people think that this is not a good thing for youth as it is affecting their understanding of the standard English language.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/from-the-mouths-of-teens-422688.html - last access 16/09/15

From the mouths of teens


This article is all about how slang has become apart of everyday language for teens across England. The reporters in this article record a conversation between two teens and later got one boy from a secondary school in London to 'translate' and explain what the slang words mean. Researchers are calling this type of multicultural slang speech MLE (Multicultural London English) whereas most people would describe someone speaking this way as ''he's speaking like a black boy but he's just speaking like a London boy''. Professor Paul Kerswill of Lancaster University says that ''Adolescence is the life stage at which people most willingly take on new visible or audible symbols of group identification... fashions specific to this age group change rapidly. Fashion and music often go together, and these in turn are often associated with social class and ethnicity. The same is true of language'' This explains that teens are the most likely to have picked this up from music and fashion meaning that they have been influenced to talk this way by something/someone. The study shows that this type of language is most noticeable when they express them selves, such as when explaining a conversation ''i was like'' instead of ''i said''. Kerswill also describes this way of speaking as "It's a real dialect rather than simply a mode of speech, and there's already evidence that it's spreading to other multicultural cities like Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester. It'll become more mainstream through force of numbers and continued migration, and because it's considered cool." Where he can see that this is a new phenomenon others do not see it in that light such as one young boys mother who says "I can't understand a word he's saying sometimes''. With the way this type of dialect is growing in numbers we will soon all have no choice but to understand what is being said.

Spoken elements in advertisment texts. . .

Here is a summary of the adverts I have found and what I think they mean...

I found an advert on a billboard about Virgin Holidays, it read :

'' It's time to escape with virgin''

The word ''It's'' is the spoken element in this text, I think it is used to appear friendly to people viewing the advert who are potential customers, this is used to seem as if a friend is talking to you and is recommending Virgin holidays to you as this is an informal way of writing which is not something you expect from a large respected company like Virgin. 

I also found an advert for Ribena in a news paper, it read:

'' The fruitiest, Tastiest, Juiciest, Blackcurrantiest Ribena. You can't get any more Ribenary''

In this advert they have made up some words to describe the new Ribena drink, making this advert informal. If this was a formal advert you would expect to see real descriptive words not made up words such as ''Ribenary''. However with this informal element and the unique tactic of creating words it makes people talk about the advert for the product which will in turn make people talk about their product.

Liked and disliked words of the English language. . .

A group of people were asked to write down a word they liked and a word they disliked, this is a list of the outcomes:

Slut, c**t, bellend, flower, love, pop, bubbles, literally, like, trust, sweat, mint, nugget, gravy, asparagus, honey, sprout, amazing, lush, naive, inconvenient, peng, sanguine, fraught.

The words highlighted in green are liked words and the ones highlighted red are disliked words.
From this I grouped these words into some categories:

1 Derogative words/insults:
   Slut, C**t, Bellend

2 Pretty words:
   Flower, Love, Pop, Bubbles

3 Words people missuse/ slang:
    Literally, like, sweat, mint, trust

4 Food;
   Nugget, Gravy, Asparagus, Honey, Sprout

5 Adjectives:
   Amazing, Lush, Naive, Inconvenient, Peng, Sanguine, Fraught

From these groups I noticed some patterns some of which several groups fell into. Groups 1,3 and 4 were full of words that are mostly disliked. Group 5 was mostly liked words. Group 2 was full of words that were all liked.
From this I can establish that most people dislike when words are strongly hateful or when they are used in the wrong context or as a form of slang. I can also deter that people disliked the words of food that they didn't enjoy eating, as if the word made them think of the horrible taste in their mouths when eating it. Also I can see that people liked words that sounded euphonious and words that had meaning behind them.