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labov martha’s vineyard

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interviewed different demographics of people to see if vowels pronounced differently fisherman and young men pronounced them differently due to rejecting mainland american norms

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giles matched guise part 2

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1975 same thing but with 5 different
birmingham and RP: higher
1 written 4 oral brummie: more persuasive rp and written: more impressive

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giles matched guise pt 1

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1973 (teens) listened to recording of speaker expressing views on subjects same person different accent values opinion of RP accent

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kerswill milton keynes

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place of added population and social mobility asked children to read aloud + record speech, interviewed, children had diffeent accent to parents dialect levelling
giles= mothers accents

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giles accent bias

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asked im to rate how prestigious/pleasant each accent is, same for biskins 2004
rp accent identical to own highest
brummie scouse lowest

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llamas

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middlesbrough, socially homogeneous people, same accent levelling (glottal t)

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stockwell

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‘yous’ preserves old english grammatical functions that we lost, people should switch between accents rather than change them, glottal t not lazy

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jodie comer

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actress told to changed her scouse accent by career and family, discrimination

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snell

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teach children standard english + regional varieties, focusing too much on speaking may make the children not wanna speak up in class

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thornborrow identity within language

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use of language: identity, people’s views of who we are

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kircher + fox (MLE)

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online survey - attitude towards MLE among 800 londeners, was rated low, has mixed reaction in media, david starkey negative view

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thorne rating of regional accents

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native english speakers rated regional accents badly, he tries to disprove this

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ian cushing

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naturalised belief that RP grammer gives a speaker/writer middle class status + whiteness ie ofsted

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trudgill

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all dialects are on the same level (continuum). no dialect is better than the other, standard english is one variety among many

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