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
    • Covert Prestige
      • Multicultural London English
        • First studied in Hackney /Lambeth
    • 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

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