English Language: Dialect
- Created by: Charlotte Emily Turner
- Created on: 04-06-18 11:18
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- DIALECT
- Attitudes
- Honey: RP is the best (gives better opportunities)
- Guise Matching
- Giles: RP is intelligent
- Giles: Regional are funny/ trustworthy
- Halliday, McIntosh, Strevens: Rural accents are judged more positive
- Dixon, Mahoney, *****
- e.g. Margaret Thatcher changed her accent & dialect to be successful in politics
- Northern
- Ives' Bradford
- 2014 study
- 95% of students spoke Punjabi
- Used to exclude
- Mixture of Punjabi & English
- Kerswill
- Poor economy = Less opportunities = Vernacular dialect
- Hull: Non-standard dialect
- Hull: 'th'-fronting & glottal stops
- South = Better economies = Standard dialects
- Ives' Bradford
- J Cheshire
- 1989: Survey of British Dialect Grammar
- Levelling is more common in the south
- Industrial towns
- 1982: Reading Study
- Approval of criminal activities = Vernacular dialect
- Disapproval = SE
- 1989: Survey of British Dialect Grammar
- Attitudes
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