For the new year we have a lot of re filming and catching up to do.! So The first thing I have started with is the script.
THE INFLUENCE OF SLANG IN SOCIETY (PROVISIONAL TITLE) SHOOTING SCRIPT 8/11/10
1 EXT. CONVENT OF JESUS AND MARY. DAY. 1
JAMILLA
Hello and welcome to JMTV documentaries, my name is Jamilla Joseph and today’s documentary will focus on the national use of SLANG.
Jamilla’s walking down the steps of the garden as she introduces the programme.
Today’s episode will focus on the use of informal language used in the classrooms. Slang has always been used in the English language but most people see slang as abbreviations. E.g. Computerà PC. Now slang has evolved into a whole new era and it’s now popularly used amongst teenagers.
In this series we will be looking at culture slang in age groups, slang and the influence of technology, censorship and slang in the future. In this episode our main focus is slang in education. (VOICEOVER)
In English there are prescriptivist and descriptivist approaches to language change a prescriptivist person believes that English language should stay the same and that it should not change. Whereas a descriptivist person would embrace language change, so theoretically speaking they would embrace the evolution of slang.
When talking slang there are many theorists and people that have conducted research about the use of slang amongst teenagers. Linguist Sue Fox conducted a study in London looking at the type of language used in ethnic minorities. She called this the multi-ethnic youth dialect (MEYD) From this she found that many of the words that youths were using came from Jamaican and Indian cultures. This influence of this was due to the wide spread of ethnic groups that have settled in London.
So could this e the reason for some of the words we use today. We’ll we will take a look into the other influences of words but for now let’s take a look at the influences it has in schools.
