Dialect, Indentity and the Media Flashcards
What are the positives for dialect representation in the media?
Draws attention to langugaes under threat
Reflects changing attitudes towards regional varieties.
What is Folk Meta langugae
People who are not professional but still talk about language.
metalanguage = analysing another language.
What is a positive of folk metalanguage at giving us an insight into linguistic variation?
Speakers own comments allow for insight into sociolinguistic differences that might otherwise me inaccessable to the linguist/analyst.
“The arse that Jack Built”
Was rfield inspired by Ian Mcmillians perceptions of the MOUTH isogloss somewhere between Sheffield and Chesterfield - spreads dialect variety awareness.
What are the negatives of negative representations in the media?
Oversimplistic picture of dialect variation
promotes sterotypes
Prescriptive rather than descriptive - some varities more corrext - reports linguistic innovation negatively
Promotes dialect hierarchy with RP at the pinnacle and all other varieties below it
What did the CASE study of Royston show?
found that speakers diverged from rather than converged to regional phonological norms.
Showed indexical values of some speakers
Importance of a folk metalanguage?
Allows researcher to uncover social/indexical values that speakers associate with their language use.
What is Socio-stylistic variation?
Socio-stylistic variation is when speakers attribute different social values to a single linguisitc varient over time by acquiring different socio-linguistic roles.
