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Identity - Theories and Theorists - Coggle Diagram
Identity - Theories and Theorists
Giles- accommodation theory
' if you like the way someone does something, you gravitate towards it and the opposite applies the same'
Joanna Thornborrow
'one of the most fundermental ways we have of establishing our identity, and of shaping other peoples views of who we are, is through the use of language'
Peter Trudgill
Did a lot of research in the 1920's
Found clear evidence in his studies, noted gender differences of how women thought they used more standard English than what they did
Collects systematic scientific evidence about the relationship between language and social class
Jenny Cheshire
Found high levels of non-standard forms in gangs
Teenagers were conforming to gang sub-culture by using the non-standard form
Studied language of reading teenagers
Leslie Milroy
More common in men
High male unemployment
Found that people who lived in closed communities tended to us non-standard forms
The female language tended to be more vernacular
Studied the language of working class communities in Belfast
study shows the importance of social networks
Labov's research - Martha's vineyard
Research demonstrates the 'Giles Accommodation Theory'
Conclusion: The 2 groups were subconsciously distancing themselves from summer tourists
He interviewed 69 ppts. from different age, occupation and ethnicity, he found that local people aged 31-45 and older and upislanders pronounced dipthong phonemes all/ai in similar and distinctive waves
Basil Bernstein
Elaborated code = more personal, context free, less likely to assume shared attitudes
Restricted code = deictical, inclined to imply rather than spell out meaning
Elaborated and restricted code between working and middle class
Critisms of Bernsteins theory
assumes all middle class people speak in elaborated code which is too generalised - same with working class
Provided little evidence to back up his claims