Theory
This theory talks about how people code switch.
What is Gary Ives theory?
Proved the link between institutional racism and accent bias
Who is John Baugh?
Comes from west midland and is characterized being a little monotous.
What is Brummie dialect?
Positive or negative assessments of variants that are in line with the dominant norms associated with sounding ‘proper’.
A norm or target the speakers unconsciously orient to, with a hidden positive evaluation that speakers give to non-standard forms.
What are the two types of prestige?
He worked in an historical market town in a random restaurant.
Who is Peter Trudgill?
Comes from south London is well known.
What is a Cockney dialect?
As a result suspect was rated as significantly more guilty when he employed a Birmingham rather than a standard accent and that attributions of guilt were significantly associated with the suspect’s perceived superiority and social attractiveness.
What is ’Accents of Guilt‘ theory?
Gave the idea that, young people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds use MLE so it is less about race, ethnicity or culture and more about age.
Who is Gary Ives?
Every area has a different way of pronouncing different words.
What is an accent?
In big cities there are more shared features, even though some regional features apply, resulting in dental fronting, pragmatic marking and difference in vowel articulation
What is MUBE?
Lower working classes use h dropping in almost all instances Upper-middle class only used it in approx 1 in 10 opportunities
What is Malcolm Petyt?
Every region has its own form of language in different countries.
What is a dialect?
Someone with a posh accent may tone it down when speaking to someone else.
Someone who isn’t posh may use stronger features in their speech to accommodate with posh individuals.
What is Communication Accomodation Theory?
She studied the 'jocks' and the 'burnouts‘
Who is Penelope Eckert?
Established in nineteenth century and is often associated with prestige?
What is RP accent?