Ideas for a feature article on attitudes towards accent and dialect
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- Feature article about attitudes to accent and dialect
- Howard Giles
- Communication Accommodation Theory (C.A.T.)
- Convergence and Divergence
- Upward/ Downwards convergence
- Carried out experiment
- RP accent more impressive, but regional accent more persuasive
- Dialect leveling
- idea that regional vocabulary is gradually dying out
- Evolving English Word bank at the British Library
- Shows that dialect remains strong
- Linguists praise dialect for their creativity
- People are generally more positive than negative
- Influence of the media
- RP accent
- 19th century
- East midlands triangle
- London, Oxford, Cambridge
- Overt prestige
- Positive connotations
- Respectable and intelligent
- Negative connotations
- Snobbish
- Colley Lane Primary School
- West midlands school
- School campaign encourages the use of the right language for the right context
- Top 10 most damaging phrases
- Ya instead of you
- Gonna instead of 'going to
- I day instead of i didn't
- attempt to impose standard English in schools
- Regional accents
- is there a stigma?
- Associations with different accents
- Birmingham accent considered unattractive (working class)
- Idea of hierarchies of language
- Idea that people are trying to get rid of the RP accent
- Vocal coaching
- To be more appealing
- Used by politicians such as David Cameron
- Prescriptivism vs Descriptivism
- William Labov
- Macy's department store study
- Female use of RP to sound more sophisticated
- Marthas Vineyard study
- (In USA) Fisherman's use of diphthongs,to distance themselves from tourists
- Proud of their accent
- Macy's department store study
- Covert Prestige
- Multicultural London English
- First studied in Hackney /Lambeth
- Multicultural London English
- Code Switching
- Switching between two or more languages
- Estuary English
- Glottal stops
- Think being pronounced as fink
- With being pronounced as wiv
- Shibboleth
- the way it is pronounced reflects social class
- Basil Bernstein
- Working class - restricted code of language
- Middle class - elaborate code of language
- Penelope Eckert
- American High School study
- Jocks and Burnouts
- Different accents reflect background
- Howard Giles
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