Accent and Dialect
- Created by: Nicky.18
- Created on: 04-11-19 13:30
View mindmap
- Accent and Dialect
- Key definitions
- Dialect
- Can be variations in lexis or grammar
- Standard English
- Considered to have the most prestige, used in education and in formal texts.
- Slang
- Words and phrases e considered informal or non-standard.
- Taboo
- Words or phrases that are deemed to be offensive
- Technology influenced
- Words or phrases associated with written technology such as tweets or texts'
- Neologisms
- New words such as selfie and brexit.
- Occupational register
- Stemming from personal interests, register or jargon based on a shared understanding between certain groups or individuals.
- Received Pronunciation
- Used in the teaching of English, an accent accredited with the upmost prestige and formality.
- Regional accent
- The way you pronounce certain words depending on where you live.
- Accent
- How words are pronounced
- Lexical and Grammatical Variation
- Lexis is the difference in words used where as grammatical is the variation in grammar
- Dialect
- International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
- Vowel sounds
- ae = Hat
- a: = far
- -u- = Book
- ^ = up
- Consonants
- h = h
- = glottal stop
- Fricatives
- f = f
- 0- = thin, 6' = this
- v = v
- Rhotic
- r = r
- Vowel sounds
- Attitudes
- Positive
- Recieved pronunciation, formal, prestigious, well received by listeners as intelligent and well educated people.
- Standard English, forma; and prestigious. intelligent
- Yorkshire, intelligent, friendly, helpful.
- welsh, warm, loving, friendly and homely.
- Negative
- Brummy, thick, uneducated, rough, mean, bullies.
- South,london areas, chavvy, uneducated, rough
- Scottish, dimwitted, drunk, lazy and arrogant.
- Irish, unintelligent, drunks, lower class, workers, messy.
- Positive
- Regional dialect variations
- Double or triple negatives
- Aint
- I arent
- No or nae
- The past participle
- Never
- Omission of SE -s
- Addition of non-standard -s
- Different relative pronoun patterns
- Double comparatives and superlatives
- Subject or object case of personal pronoun 'they'
- Unmarked plurals
- Diofferent preposition patterns
- Different adverb patterns
- Adjectives
- Possessive case
- Teenspeak
- Penelope Ekhert
- slang makes a connection to youth culture
- separate themselves from the older generation
- establishes covert prestige
- impressive attitude
- coin new words more
- linguistic change is more common
- "adolescents do not all talk alike; on the contrary, differences among adolescents and probably far greater than speech differences among members of any age group."
- Tony Thorn
- codeswitching is - "another badge of identity"
- its " a way they can feel empowered"
- its a way of excluding outsiders
- Penelope Ekhert
- Key definitions
Comments
No comments have yet been made