'All raait! It's a new black-white lingo' article summary.

Steven Swinford and Laura St Quintion's article 'All raait! It's a new black-white lingo' is about the slang used (mostly) among teenagers living in London. The article begins discussing the affect of ethnic background on the dialect that is used. It is said to believe that the slang used includes words and sounds from several different languages such as cockney, Jamacian creole and Bangali. Professor Paul Kerswill led a study into understanding slang, and where teenagers have discovered it from. His study included researching a group of teenagers, of a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds to discover if the dialect used by the teenagers was related to race. Kerswill then found that no matter which background the teenager had, they all used relatively the same dialect. The Professor continued to explain that he believes that this dialect will make its way into the film industry after he discovered that in multi-cultural cities such as Manchester, similar dialect was used. Kerswill then said that he believes that this dialect is used as a way to seem "fashionable and cool" and is also used as an opportunity to be unique and to 'mark' themselves out in the community.As the article continued, it began to move onto how social media, and music (rap music to be precise) has influenced teenagers' language. Rap stars such as Lady Sovereign and Dizzie Rascal are mentioned, to show that some lyrics in their music contain slang that is now used regularly by teenagers. Professor Paul Kerswill is yet again mentioned when discussing his study. He has discovered that even in places such as Watford (Hertfordshire) the teenagers are no different to those in London. Kerswill's study was said to have cost £275,000 and analysed conversations of 32 teenagers aged 16 to 28 from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. The influences on pronunciation are spoken about as the study is explained. Words such as "pound" were found to be pronounced as "paaand" which originates from traditional cockney language. The article then explains other variations of language, and the backgrounds they believe that they have originated from. Different to the pronunciation, Kerswill's study discovered certain language used such as 'nang' meaning 'good' and 'creps' meaning 'trainers' were originally from places such as Jamacia. As the article ends, some concerns about this dialect are expressed. The Lilian Baylis school, for example, has banned its students from using such language. The head teacher, Gary Phillips, explained that this was because he was "trying to teach the kids that there is a time and a place for it". Overall, the article sums up the context of this new dialect which has been discovered through doing many different studies. As some may not have a problem with people using this language, others are still not accepting the inevitable use of it and are yet to be persuaded.