Accent and Dialect
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- Accent and Dialect
- Giles Accommodation Theory (1971)
- Divergence
- e.g. not using specific words to avoid association with a particular accent
- Used to distance themselves
- Cheshire
- Children who approved of behaviour used non-standard features
- Convergence
- Used to relate to people
- e.g. if you like someone you will converge more to relate with them more
- e.g. speaking more Mancunian because you like a person with a Mancunian accent
- Used to relate to people
- Divergence
- David Crystal
- Standard English is a core form of language
- Prescriptivism
- a certain way of speaking is correct (SE, RP)
- Descriptivism
- language is appropriate for its context e.g. different words used in informal situations
- Prescriptivism
- Standard English is a core form of language
- Regional Accents
- Negatively Evaluated
- Birmingham
- associated with being rough; unfriendly
- Scouse
- associated with being rough; unfriendly
- Scouse
- Received Pronunciation
- Birmingham
- Positively Evaluated
- Celtic accents e.g. iIish and Edinburgh
- associated with friendliness and gentleness
- Celtic accents e.g. iIish and Edinburgh
- more proud of our accents
- identity and uniqueness
- Negatively Evaluated
- Received Pronunciation (RP)
- Negatively Evaluated
- associated with snobbery
- Modern day view
- Positively Evaluated
- early twentieth century
- 'receive' the vowels and consonants clearly
- easy to understand
- Prescriptivist view
- easy to understand
- Upper class prestige
- associated with snobbery
- early twentieth century
- Negatively Evaluated
- Giles Accommodation Theory (1971)
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