English Language Social Groups

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Overt Prestige
Status that is publicly acknowledged E.G. Estuary English
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Covert Prestige
Status gained from peer group recognition =Multicultural London English
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Jenny Cheshire- Reading Study
Looked at standard and non- standard pronunciation.Girls used standard forms whilst boys used non-standard forms such as; 'aint', 'was', and 'do'. Those who used non-standard were more accepting of crime and apart of a delinquent subculture.
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Peter Trugil
Non-standard forms= said it was common in lower social classes. The non-standard 'in' occurred more in men's speech than women's
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Penelope Eckert - Jocks and Burnouts
Found that two groups Jocks= valued upward mobility and Burnouts sought emphasis on freedom . Altogether she found that people tend to speak more like friends as they've shared social practices.
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Jim + Lesley Milroy - Protestants vs Catholics
Pronunciation of words such as; 'grass' which was pronounced 'grawss'. When Catholics went to work in the cities they adopted a different pronunciation.
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Labov Department store study
Studied how the 'r' was sounded i words like; 'guard' and 'bare'. In Saks= top store to use standard forms. Macys= greatest upward shift when asked to repeat pronunciation. Klein's used the least.
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Paul Kerswil
Increase social mobility is the caused of dialect leveling.
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Status gained from peer group recognition =Multicultural London English

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Covert Prestige

Card 3

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Looked at standard and non- standard pronunciation.Girls used standard forms whilst boys used non-standard forms such as; 'aint', 'was', and 'do'. Those who used non-standard were more accepting of crime and apart of a delinquent subculture.

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Card 4

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Non-standard forms= said it was common in lower social classes. The non-standard 'in' occurred more in men's speech than women's

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Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

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Found that two groups Jocks= valued upward mobility and Burnouts sought emphasis on freedom . Altogether she found that people tend to speak more like friends as they've shared social practices.

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