Region and Social Groups Flashcards
(21 cards)
Lave and Wenger
1991: Communities of practice, open and closed networks and multiplex interactions
Bailey et al
2020: Twitter, eye-dialect spellings, performativity
Lesley Milroy
Network Strength Scores (men=high=n-s use=close-knit), trend reversed in Clonard
Lucy Jones
Indexicality, words have a social meaning
Coupland and Bishop
2007: Rated 34 accents for social attractiveness and prestige
Howard Giles
1975: Capital Punishment Study- typescript, somerset, south welsh, RP and Birmingham
Malcom Petyt
1985: h-dropping more common among lower classes in Bradford, social mobility (put/putt)
Levon, Sharma, Watt and Perry
2020: Accent Bias in Britain project, mock legal interview, age differences, repeated Coupland and Bishop’s study
Peter Trudgill
1) Norwich, more casual and lower class= more n-s use
2) Attitudes to language: correctness, adequacy and aesthetics
William Labov
1963: Martha’s Vineyard, fishermen
1962: NYC department stores, post-vocalitic r, hypercorrection
Halfacre
Regional variation in RP accents (bath/bath)
Steph McGovern
Said she would be paid more if she had a posh accent
Alex Scott
2021: criticised for g-dropping while presenting at the Olympics
Angela Rayner
Politician, cristicised for her North-West English accent
Kate Fox
Certain words characterise different classes in England
Julia Snell
2015: singular “us” used more by lower class children, solidarity and membership
Snell and Chushing
Bans marginalise and stigmatise pupils and set up artificial barriers
Basil Bernstein
1971: Middle-class children use both elaborated and restriced code, working-class only use restriced, school system designed around elaborated
Jenny Cheshire
1982: Group B (crime, fighting) girls more likely to use n-s features- covert prestige, anti-language
Kerswill and Williams
1990: Milton Keynes, accent levelling, children created new variety, population mobility
Cole
2020: Cockneys in Essex, younger speakers= Estuary English, dialect levelling
