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Accents Must-Knows - Coggle Diagram
Accents Must-Knows
Theories
Llamas (2007)
Sense relations Networks:
In the mind there exists a network of interconnected words and phrases
Used to explore lexical variations between regions
Giles and Powesland (2002)
Birmingham Lecturer vs RP
82% more notes taken in RP
RP described as more intelligent
Also studied accents in court rooms. Found that Birmingham is perceived to be more guilty than RP
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Harrington (2000)
Tracked Queen's speech over 30 years and found she moved away from RP and came closer to Estuary English
Kerswill (1999)
studied dialect levelling in Reading, Hull, Milton Keynes
Found the more people move from elsewhere the more scope for social mobility and development of language used
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Yoosufani (2011)
Investigated Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian accents
found that not only does discrimination exist but
'there is a disconnect between existence of discrimination and awareness of discrimination'
Kallin and Rayko (2011)
Foreign accented job candidates are more likely to get selected for low-status jobs
Bernstien 1971
Restricted codes: Used by lower classes and men
Elaborated codes: Used by upper classes and women
Thornborrow (2004)
Golden quote
'One of the most fundamental ways we have of constructing our identities and shaping other people's views of who we are is our use of language'
Accents
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Norwich
cit/i:/
[ʊ] and [ʌ]
'room', the vowel sound is /ʊ/ rather than /u:/
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Case Studies
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Labov 1966
Procononatal /r/ in NY macy's
lower middle class people were more susceptible to overt prestige
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