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Regional background- key concepts - Coggle Diagram
Regional background- key concepts
Convergence
Often subconscious
Speaking with the same level of formality and slang
Strategies through which individuals adapt to each others communicative behaviours to reduce social differences
Divergence
Refers to the instances in which individuals accentuate the speech and non verbal differences between themselves and he people they are speaking to
Overt Prestige
Standard forms of english, socially acknowledge as 'correct' therefore valued highly e.g. RP speakers
Express power and status
Covert Prestige
Jenny Cheshire study
Language and identity
Non-standard variatios of english, goes against the ;norms' and 'conventions' e.g. MLE
Syntax
Order of your words in a sentence
Morphology
Adding prefixes and suffixes
Eye Dialect
Used to see rather than hear how it would be said
Allows a cross over of spoken and written modes
Non-standard spelling in order to represent non-standard accents
Dialect levelling
As a country we are moving towards more of a national dialect
More hemoginous speaking
Where language forms of different parts of the country converge and become more similar
loss of regional features and reduced diversity of language