Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Regional Identity

Andrew Higson (1998) writes "Identity is generally understood to be the shared identity of naturalised inhabitants of a particular political geographic space this can be a particular nation or region"

Medhurt - "They are awful because they are not like us"

Every area has a particular stereotype which the inhabitants understand.

Colloquial dialect - how people speak in a certain place. e.g. cornwall "dreckly", London "geeeezaaa""apples and pears"

Semantic Field -  Texas - oil, guns, cowboys

REVISE CAMERA TEMRINOLOGY




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