Key theorists: Regional dialect
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- Key theorists: Regional Variation
- Howard Giles
- capital punishment experiment
- regional accents more persuasive than the RP accent
- people were not impressed with urban accent speakers
- RP presentation and printed text more impressive
- theory of accomodation
- 'when people interact they adjust their speech, their vocal patterns and their gestures, to accommodate to others'.
- capital punishment experiment
- Trudgill
- more women in Norwich pronounced -ing more than men
- more people from the middle middle class pronounced -ing that from the lower class
- in all social classes, the more careful the speech, the more likely people were to say 'walking' rather than 'walkin'
- carried out a study in Norwich on the use of the standard, prestige -ing form
- Gary Ives
- taboo is part of the teen vernacular
- dialect is used commonly when speaking
- slang, which teens see as typical of their age group, is common
- informal lexical choices are often linked by common themes on topics
- carried out a study at a West Yorkshire secondary school, researching the idea that someone's age influences their language
- Paul Kerswill
- the movement of people leads to greater dialect contact
- the movement of people leads to radical changes in people's social networks
- Leslie Milroy
- carried out participant observation in Belfast to in order to interpret socio-linguistic patterns, by gaining access to everyday speech
- the strongest vernacular speakers were generally those who had the strongest neighborhood network ties - those with the highest level of integration into neighbourhood networks
- Dixon, Mahoney and *****
- used the 'matched guise' approach in order to see if there was a correlation between accent and how we percieve someone's guilt
- non-standard Birmingham speakers are more likely to be considered guilty than more standard Birmingham speakers
- Choy and Dodd
- teachers make judgement on a student's ability and their personality based on the way they speak
- Neuliep and Speten-Hansen
- used the 'matched guise' approach to see whether there is link between ethnocentrism and the perception of a speaker with a 'non-native accent'
- those considered to be ethnocentric gave lower rating to the non-native speakers
- how a non-native speaker is perceived can depend on the ethnocentricity of the person they are speaking to
- Seligam, Tucker and Lambert
- teacher's perceptions of students are heavily influenced by their speech
- Howard Giles
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