The North and South Divide Flashcards
1
Q
What are the 5 differences between the north and south?
A
Cultural Social Economic Linguistic Perceptual
2
Q
What are the consequences for these differences?
A
Austrocentrism
Metrocentrism
3
Q
What is Austrocentrism?
A
discrimmination in favour of the South.
The South is superior and everything else is inferior
London works as deitic anchorage of power and commerece
4
Q
What is Metrocentrism?
A
Metropoliton bias - Londons fashionable influence on correctness of pronounication RP
5
Q
Origins of the linguisitic divide?
A
In the OE period no mobility - not aware
