Accent & Dialect

Question 1

Tucker & Lambert

Answer 1

Teachers perspective on students were heavily influenced by their speech.

Question 2

Choy & Dodd

Answer 2

Teacher makes judgement on a students ability & personality based on speech

Question 3

Giles & Powesland

Answer 3

Matched guise technique - played a variety accents and asked to judge aesthetic, communicative + status valves of different accents
Stereotypical attitudes built up and prestige continuum emerged.
They found :
- RP & SE more prestige, pleasing & intelligent
- national accents fairly high
- rural regional fairly pleasing but not as prestigious
- broad regional associated with urban and industrial areas regarded as unattractive + unintelligent

Question 4

Prescriptivism

Answer 4

Argues for a “proper” grammatical form of lang

Question 5

Descriptivism

Answer 5

Difference in lang irl, how it’s acc used. Does not put one as good or bad.

Question 6

Basil Bernstein

Answer 6

Social group determines which code you use.

• restricted code: used by everyone, working classes tend to only use it. Short, simple, incomplete sentences; limited use of adjectives + adverbs; use of idiom
• elaborated:

Question 7

Gary Ives - Martha’s vineyard

Answer 7

Locals diverge from general public, converge to fisherman. Fishermen have influential power -