Dialects Flashcards
1
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What is Social Network Theory?
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- Based on the “size and diversity” of your group
- Closed networks serve as strong norm enforcement mechanisms
2
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What is Cheshire’s Reading Study?
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- Studied mixed sex teenagers that truanted
- Identified 11 non-standard features (e.g. multiple negation, non-standard s inflection)
- Found that they positively correlate to social network
3
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What is Moore’s Bolton study?
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- Studied 4 Communites of practice
- Studied frequency of non standard were
- Townies (upper working class) used it almost all the time
- Eden Valley girls (middle class) used standard nearly all the time
4
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What is Kerswill’s Dialect Levelling?
A
- Looked at regional varieties dying out
- Found that geographical mobility increased dialect contact
- Therefore there’s less pressure to speak regional forms
5
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What is Milroy and Milroy’s dialect levelling?
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- Social mobility decreases regional dialect variation
6
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What is Dixon, Mahoney and Cocks’ Matched Guise experiment?
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- Got people to listen to the same person in a police interview using different guises
- Found that Birmingham guise/accent was perceived as more guilty compared to RP
