Standard English planning essay
- Created by: tardy
- Created on: 20-02-23 14:40
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- SE - social attitudes
- Descriptivism
- Non-judgemental, conscious of social power of language
- Michael Rosen
- We shouldn't ban slang, we should study it
- We are all bi-dialectal (capable of code-switching)
- William Labov: studied AAVE. African American Vernacular English. 'No barrier to learning'. Examples: 'He crazy' - copula deletion (no is)
- Milroy & Milroy: youse - argued SE has gaps, less flexible than regional varieties
- Prescriptivism
- Judgemental, see selves as gatekeepers, see English as under attack
- Lyndsay Johns: criticised 'street slang' such as 'innit', 'cuz', 'bruv'
- We make assumptions/ inferences about a person's social class, intelligence, geographical
- Steph McGovern North Eastern accent - was offered £5 to get elocution lessons
- In polls, Scottish/ Yorkshire accent seen as trustworthy/ friendly; Liverpool accent untrustworthy; RP users seen as 'haughty'
- John Baugh - found that landlords in California had a 66% chance of offering an appointment to someone with a Standard American accent, but only 39% if they had a minority accent
- Descriptivism
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