Accent And Dialect Theory

Question 1

Mary Bucholtz (2001)

Answer 1

Looked at the language of “white nerds” who deliberately distance themselves from white peers who are more likely to adopt ‘cooler’ black speech styles

Question 2

Kerswill

Answer 2

Increased interaction with people of other speech varieties is a possible cause of dialect levelling
Increased social mobility has led to ‘the consequent breakdown of tight knit working communities.

Question 3

Kortmann and Szmrecsanyi

Answer 3

Indicates that “them” is a part of all English dialects.
“I like them shoes”

Question 4

Milroy

Answer 4

Increased geographical mobility leads to the ‘large scale disruption of close knit, localised networks’ that have previously had complex sets of socially structured norms.

Question 5

Giles

Answer 5

Communication accommodation theory

Question 6

Kerswill and Williams

Answer 6

When having a conversation with someone of a different dialect community, some people like to emphasise their own dialect (divergence)

Question 7

Howard Giles

Answer 7

Matched guide test, people who use rp or standard English were viewed as more intellectual, those of regional accents such as Birmingham were viewed as more friendly