Briefly Abandoned: Peter Trudgill- Norwich Study

Question 1

How many participants did he pick?

Answer 1

60

Question 2

What place was this study about? (Hard Question) (…or is it?) (shouldn’t be)

Answer 2

Norwich Study

Question 3

Who did this Norwegian Study (there’s NorWay it can be him!) I’m kidding about Norway btw. The question remains about the linguist though- NorWhich one?

Answer 3

Peter Trudgill

Question 4

Peter Trudgill- Norwich Study. (5)

Answer 4

Peter Trudgill’s theory of language variation: (2)
Methodology: (4)
Linguistic Variables: (2)
Results: (3)
One criticism could be that Trudgill doesn’t seem to acknowledge that the linguistic choices made by the speakers could have been conscious ones: (2)

Question 5

Peter Trudgill- Norwich Study. (5)
Peter Trudgill’s theory of language variation: (2)

Answer 5

1. Trudgill believed that people belonging to higher social classes would use more standard language forms, and the higher the social class, the closer to prestige varieties their language would be.
2. Trudgill also assumed that language use would change depending on how conscious a person was of/about their speech.

Question 6

Peter Trudgill- Norwich Study. (5)
Methodology: (4)

Answer 6

1. Before selecting and interacting with his participants, Trudgill needed to set up an index against which to measure social class based on a range of factors including: (4)
2. He ‘randomly’ picked 60 participants but made sure that they were evenly spread across Norwich. (1)
3. He noted each instance of the variables that he was studying and looked at it together with the data about social class.
4. Linking back to the concepts of overt and covert prestige and conscious speech, Peter Trudgill created various scenarios of ranging formality and paid attention to speech to ensure his results were more balanced and reliable. Some examples of the scenarios he used includes: (3)

Question 7

Peter Trudgill- Norwich Study. (5)
Methodology: (4)
1. Before selecting and interacting with his participants, Trudgill needed to set up an index against which to measure social class based on a range of factors including: (4)

Answer 7

a. Occupation
b. Education
c. Location/ housing type
d. Income

Question 8

Peter Trudgill- Norwich Study. (5)
Methodology: (4)
2. He ‘randomly’ picked 60 participants but made sure that they were evenly spread across Norwich. (1)

Answer 8

a. The way that he decided to categorise class, they only went from ‘middle middle class’ to ‘lower working class’.

Question 9

Peter Trudgill- Norwich Study. (5)
Methodology: (4)