Atitudes to language

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Theorist that argued Standard English is a dialect
Trudgill
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Linguists that found only 9-12% of people spoke with standard English
Cheshire and Trudgill
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Linguist that argued no such thing as single stye speaker
Labov
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Linguists that studied the Sun newspaper
Stein and Quirk
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Communication Accommodation theory
Giles
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Idea that no one thinks they have an accent study
Esling
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Myth of Americans ruining English
Alego
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Aborginee study
Evans
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Careful introspection still can't filter out grammar failures
Meechan and Foley
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Grammar not equally districted across all genres
Carter and McCarthy
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Prescriptivism and Descriptivism lines blurred
Lakoff
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Linguists that found only 9-12% of people spoke with standard English

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Cheshire and Trudgill

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Linguist that argued no such thing as single stye speaker

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Linguists that studied the Sun newspaper

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Communication Accommodation theory

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