Accent And Dialect Flashcards
Jean gross
Agrees urgent action is needed to prevent children failing to find jobs because they’re unable to communicate- teen vocab should be 40,000 now 800
Lindsay john - ghetto grammar
‘Ghetto grammar robs the young of a proper voice’
Less advantaged need to be helped to reach their full potential ( restricted and elaborated code )
Basil burnstern
Restricted and elaborated code connects to social class
(Middle class = more elaborated dialects, more opportunities)
Jenny Cheshire (reading study)
Long term participant observation
Regional peer group pressure in schools with boys and girls
Language = integral part of the group
Penelope eckert - slang
Slang is used to establish a connection to youth culture and set free from the older generation
Linguistic change is more common in teenagers e.g slang/coinage
Signals coolness and toughness
Paul Kerswill (Lancashire study)
Correlation between educational aspiration and prestigious speech features used by teenagers
Maisie linford - teenage language inbetweeners
The way we speak can be split into trendy and techy
Teenagers make up language as they go along
David crystal
Cockney slang was never very known widely as it was originally a secret way to talk to each other - when the slang was known people stopped using it
- people still use rhyming slang so even if Cockney rhyming slang is dying out people still rhyme
Gary Ives
Taboo is part of teen vernacular
Dialect commonly used when speaking
Slang is typical and common in their age group
William labov - Marthas vinyard
Focused on diphthong in words like mice, ice and time
Fisherman would use interspeaker and intraspeaker variation - they do this to establish themselves as an independent social group ( make them seem superior to tourists)
