Accent/dialect Flashcards
(14 cards)
What did Unni Berland do?
Use of tags ‘innit’ ‘yeah’ ‘right’
🔸 innit - was more common in working class
🔸 yeah - was more common in middle class
🔸 okay - was used by boys mainly
👫 - both genders used innit, right and yeah in equal measures
What did Ignacio Palacios do?
“Use of negatives”
🔸teenagers used negatives more frequently than adults
🔸teengers were more direct, whereas adults are more conscious and don’t want to threaten speakers face
The typical negatives used were: no way, nope, nah and dunno
Why do people have accents?
An accent is how you sound when you speak. Everyone has one wether your a native or a foreign speaker.
Nature vs nurture in accent
When we are born we have the ability to speak and create whatever sound we desire. However the ability to pick up accents isn’t down to us; its out parents that guide us and the surroundings we are in.
It’s nurture that determines the way we speak. Used.
What is Cockney rhyming slang?
Give some examples…
It means traditional words mixed with rhyming English words to form an existing word.
It was used in 1840’s to originally confuse people.
Brown bread = dead
Rosy lee = tea
Apple and pairs = stairs
Duke of Kent = rent
What is typically used in Germany?
“Schön” which means beautiful. It’s not very common in Britain. The German language features long words that are difficult for British people to pronounce.
What do Japanese speakers use in their language?
The ‘I’ sound, they tend to replace it with an ‘r’ sound
What did Penelope Eckert say about teenage slang?
Slang is used to establish a connection to youth culture and to set themselves off from the older generations…to signal coolness, toughness or attitude.
Linguistic change is also far more common in teenagers
What did Anita Stenstrom do?
'Looked at non standard grammatical features' 14-16 years old in London Found: 🔸Multiple negotiation 🔸Use of 'ain't' 🔸Ellipsis of auxiliary verbs 🔸Non standard pronouns She claims these are common in teenage language: irregular turn taking, overlaps, word shortening, teasing and name calling, verbal duelling, slang, taboo, language mixing
What were the main findings of Giles study? (1973)
RP seen as most intelligent
Brummies seen as least intelligent
- most likely to be persuaded by people with the same regional accent
Name three assumptions that might be made by a Brummie speaker
Less likely to employed/less successful Lower social class Less intelligent
What is dialect levelling?
Language forms of different parts of the country converge and become more similar overtime, with loss of regional feature and reduced diversity in language
What did Leslie Milroy find? (2002)
Increased geographical mobility leads to ‘large scale disruption of close knit, localised networks’
What did Paul Kerswill find ?
He found that dialect levelling led to the break down of individual working class communities,as we all became one community
