Accent and dialect

Question 1

jocks and burnouts - penelope eckhert

Answer 1

jocks = going to college, don’t do drugs, maybe brink beer at parties, good grades, middle class
burnouts = anti-establishment, smoke weed, working class

Question 2

accomodation theory - howard giles

Answer 2

converging and diverging

Question 3

restricted and elaborated code - basil bernstein

Answer 3

• elaborated: more detailed (used by more middle/upper class students)
• restricted: less detailed (used by working class, poor performance students)

Question 4

socialising & networking - murray & murray

Answer 4

• higher class = less social networks
• lower class = higher social density - community and localised vernacular norms
• urbanisation - declien in social connections

Question 5

norwich study - peter trudgill

Answer 5

• research speech usage in hometown
• women said that they said ‘-ing’ rather than ‘-in’
• men said that they said ‘-in’ rather than ‘-ing’
• people want to speak more/less standard english depending on how they wnt to be percieved