Language and Geography
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- Language and Geography
- Labov - Martha's Vineyard
- Younger generations adopting older rural speech to show resistance to islands tourism
- Covert Prestige awarded to those who did this
- Prescriptivism vs Decsriptivism
- Prescriptivism
- Belief that features of language are either right or wrong
- Descriptivism
- Beleif that the 'correctness' of language is dependent on contetx
- Prescriptivism
- Giles
- Studied different accents saying same speech
- Accents tested on status, personality and how believable the person was
- 2) National accentse.g Welsh
- 3) Regional rural accentse.g. Northern seen as honest, reliable, generous, sincere, warm, humorous
- 4) Regional urban accent (city)
- Geographic Diffusion
- Spread or lessening of specific use of language
- Due to social mobility and social media
- Dialect Levelling (Milroy 2002)
- Where historical communitites lose their distinctive features for a more generic dialect
- Due to social or geographical mobility and social media
- Jenny Cheshire
- Looked at correlatiob between non-standard forms and peer groups in Reading playground
- Children who approved of 'bad' behaviour were more likely to use non-standard forms
- Labov - Martha's Vineyard
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