Standard English
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- Created on: 27-02-20 09:43
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- Standard English (Attitudes to)
- KEYWORDS social attitudes, accent/dialect, social class
- SE: Most prestigious variety of English; Characterised by its lexis, grammar and punctuation
- Received Pronuncation: The most prestigious accent; regionless
- Accent/Dialect
- Accent
- Phonology: h-dropping, goat-fronting, glottal stopping
- Dialect
- Lexis: ten-foot, nowt, mafting, bray, I'm absolutely nithered
- Accent
- Examples of non-standard English
- Double negative: I ain't never doing that again
- Subject-verb agreement: I were going out / We was best friends (call it non-standard subject verb agreement)
- Contractions: ain't/aren't - non-standard contractions of the verb 'am not'
- Prescriptivism: one superior variety: SE / RP; language in decline; needs gatekeepers
- Lindsay Johns
- 'street slang' innit, bruv, basically should be banned
- Lindsay Johns
- Descriptivism: all varieties equal; no such thing as good/bad English
- Michael Rosen
- Shakespeare uses 'cuz' + David Cameron speaks 'Eton slang'
- Michael Rosen
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