Jerwayne Monologue

6) Dean: Apparently my nan had taken me toilet that’s how pissed I was blood I couldn’t even find my way to the toilet.

7) Chris: I gotta get something to eat in my stomach blad I got. I ain’t ate nothing all day (Kerswill 2013: 143)

One of the frequent occurrences that is noticeable in the analysis is the use of man as indefinite pronoun.

8) Ashley: Cos no man likes Jude Law.

9) Jerwayne: No man likes Jude Law.

Frequent use of man as an address term and a pragmatic marker are evident thorough the texts.

10) Ian’s friend: Do it! Do it! Do what man says, man.

11) Ian Berry: Shut up, man. I'm not Ian Berry, blood. Man is a bad man, yeah?

12) Ashley: Show man your watch, innit.

Bruv has a similar function to blad and man. Given that out

27) Jerwayne: Nah! You ain't a ting, man!

28) Jerwayne: Just joking. Come, come.

29) Jerwayne: Nah, you still ain't a ting!

30) Jerwayne: Come and see me when you're a ting, yeah.

In this context thing and ting do not share the same meaning. Thing is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept. Being a ting is a more abstract form of urban slang London youth adopted from Caribbean. According to urban dictionary ting is being someone who is fun or someone with whom one can have fun with.

In the example below neutralisation shows in Paul Mohammed’s speech:

31) I would be running dem tings, rude boy, you get me?

32) No long ting, no gassing, no hyping. Makin' bare P fam. Bare P like Tony Montana.

8.2.3. Phonology When it comes to phonological features of MLE this analysis will focus only on consonants for the purpose of more accurate research. The features that are found in the second sitcom are /t/ glottalization, TH-fronting, /g/ dropping and /h/ reinstatement. They occur most frequently and that is why only them will be discussed in this analysis. The analysis includes four ethnicities through five characters in order to prove multiethnicity and the use of characteristics that mark MLE. The phonological analysis will explain four consonantal changes that appear in the texts providing example for each change from each