Diversity - Accent And Dialect Flashcards

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What is an accent?

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A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, particularly associated with a particular country, social class or area

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What is a dialect?

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The whole way language is used, including accent, vocabulary etc

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What caused the formation of dialect?

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Communities constantly being together causing the creation of specific ways of speaking

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What did Howard Giles find about the way accents were perceived?

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He found that received pronunciation was rated as highly intelligent and powerful but regional varieties were found to be viewed as more friendly and authentic

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What did Ellen Ryan find about Received pronunciation?

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It has a high status but low solidarity

This means that it is seen as high prestige but people don’t connect with it

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What did The COMRES study by ITV Tonight find about the way acents are perceived?

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It showed our bias toward accents

The Liverpudlian accent was rated by the public to be the least friendly, trustworthy and intelligent

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What did Malcolm Petyt find in his study about H omissions and modifying accent?

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Studied H omissions

He found that working-class drop h’s at every opportunity

Middle class only drop a h at 1/10 opportunities they were given

This was because dropping h’s was seen as working-class thing , so deemed inferior

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What Trudgil find about changing accents whilst investigating the ing/in variable?

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The study conducted in Norwich looked at ing/in variable

Findings showed that ppts used ‘ing’ in formal places and used ‘in’ in informal placed

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What were Trudgil’s findings an example of?

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Code-switching

Changing styles to fit context

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What did Trudgil find regarding differences in gender?

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Women tend to fall closer to hypercorrectness ( rarely dropping g)

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What is an example of convergence in modern-day Britain?

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People copying the accent and dialect used in music such as grime because they see it as cool

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What did Howard Gilies write about with accommodation theory ?

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He said that two things can happen with people’s dialects during a conversation

Convergence: trying to fit In with the other person’s way of speaking

Divergence: trying to found different to the other person’s way of speaking

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What percentage of employers discriminate on accent?

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80%

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What does the discrimination towards accent in the work place demonstrate?

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That there is clear prejudice in that area

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How are rural accents seen according to Giles?

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They are seen as friendly

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What are the two types of prestige of accents?

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Overt and Covert

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How are Urban accents seen by non-speakers?

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They are seen as Untrustworthy

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How are Urban accents seen by speakers?

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They are seen very highly

19
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Which accent has overt prestige?

A

Received pronunciation

20
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Which accent has covert prestige?

A

Our accent which we are speakers of

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What accent are working-class people more likely to use?

A

Their regional dialect

22
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What is upwards convergence?

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When someone improves their accent

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What is downward convergence?

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When someone moves away from RP