Dialect And Accent 🇬🇧

Question 1

Kerswill

Answer 1

Dialect levelling

= ^ social interaction
= break down of tight-knit working class communities

^ in city workers
34% in 1831
98.8% in 1990s

Question 2

Milroy

Answer 2

Dialect levelling

= ^ geographical mobility
= decreased rural employment

Question 3

Giles

Answer 3

Matched-guise

17 year olds - speaker with Birmingham/RP accent

RP is more valued

Question 4

BBC

Answer 4

Cool accents

Queen’s English ^
Brummie low

78% enjoy hearing a variety of accents

Brum and Liverpool = low social status
London = good for employment but unpleasant