Language and Class Theorists
- Created by: G-Hobbs
- Created on: 12-03-18 18:37
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- Class Theorists
- Labov (1966) - NY department store study
- Three different stores: Sacks (upper), Macy's (Middle), S Kleins (lower)
- Study of the post vocalic /r/ linked to prestige in the American Accent
- More common in Macy's, however more frequently in Sacks than in S Kleins
- HOWEVER not the same in the UK - RP is the prestige accent - /r/ implies west country
- Overt Prestige
- "haughty and unfriendly" - Trudgill, 2000
- "Lacking in human warmth and caring" - Giles et al
- Trudgill (1974) - social class and regional Dialect
- Norwich study - 5 social class divisions - lwc, mwc, uwc, lmc,mmc
- Studying the use of glottal stops, /ng/ at the end of words, /h/ at the beginning
- women's language was closer to RP - Insecurity?
- men of the middle class were closer to regional forms- macho
- Berstein (1971)
- Position orientated families
- Restricted code
- 'closed' families
- working class
- personal
- Context Bound
- Common assumtions
- Person orientated families
- 'open family'
- middle class
- impersonal
- context free
- less shared attitudes
- Elaborate code
- Position orientated families
- Cheshire (1982)
- nonstandard forms = approval of minor criminal activity, swearing, fighting
- Study of two groups of teenagers - Group A - standard forms, Group B - nonstandard forms
- Labov (1966) - NY department store study
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