Accent and Dialect

Question 1

What is slang?

Answer 1

Informal language used by members of a social group/ region/ context

Question 2

What did Dixon, Mahoney and Cocks find from their accent study?

Answer 2

Actors speaking in a Birmingham accent were seen as more criminal and less attractive, compared to RP speakers- due to the level of perceived prestige and regard.

Question 3

What did the results from the Workman study suggest?

Answer 3

Accents did not have an affect on perceived attractiveness of the women, but did have an affect on intelligence; also RP was seen as boring and that preconceptions have changed about regional accents