Language Diversity - Accents, Dialect, Social Class
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- Language Diversity- Accent, dialect, social class
- Key Terminology
- Sociolect: a form of talking that is specific to a certain social group
- Idiolect: Individual way of speaking
- Dialect: words specific to a certain region/area
- Accent: how words are pronounced in a certain area.
- Post vocalic /r/: pronouncing an /r/ after a vowel where there is a r in the spelling e.g. farm, horse
- A prescriptivist is concerned with the preservation of language.
- Multicultural London English (MLE)
- A variety combining elements of the language of different ethnic groups particularly afro-Caribbean English.
- Variety arose in London but has spread to different prts of the UK
- First emerged in the late 20th century
- Multicultural Urban British English (MUBE)
- Features
- Extreme fronting of goose vowels
- word pronunciation e.g they becomes dey
- use of pragmatic marker 'you get me'
- Features
- Labov
- Martha's Vineyard study
- Recorded data from 69 people - range of sexes and ages
- People in rural areas more likely to use central vowels as well as people with positive attitudes.
- New York Department Study
- recorded speakers from the lower East side ad analysed 5 phonological variables
- In the more expensive store the customers paid more attention to their direct pronunciation of the /r/ sound.
- Confirmed linguistic variation was not random and unstructured
- Martha's Vineyard study
- Trudgill's Norwich Study
- Late 1960's
- Interest to know if Labov's findings were true in the UK
- People in lower socio economic status were more likely to use non-standard linguist variants
- Women more likely to use standard linguistic variants in formal settings
- Explored Norwich dialect
- Malcolm Petyt's Bradford Dialect Case Study
- 1985
- Study into the sociologcal viable associated with dropping /h/ and its link with social class
- Lower the social class, the more likely they were to h-drop
- People were more likely to alter their accent to conform more to RP as they moved up through the social groups.
- Led to hyper-correction in some cases
- Milroy's Belfast Study
- Investigated three working class communities in Belfast
- All communities had high incidences of unemployment
- Non-standard forms were less evident in women's speech as they belonged to less dense social networks
- Men whose speech showed high usage of non-standard forms were found to belong to tight-knit social networks.
- Investigated three working class communities in Belfast
- A descriptivist believes that the correctness depends on context rather than just rules.
- Key Terminology
- Malcolm Petyt's Bradford Dialect Case Study
- 1985
- Study into the sociologcal viable associated with dropping /h/ and its link with social class
- Lower the social class, the more likely they were to h-drop
- People were more likely to alter their accent to conform more to RP as they moved up through the social groups.
- Led to hyper-correction in some cases
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