Diversity - Social Group

Question 1

What is a language repertoire?

Answer 1

A set of language varities used in speaking and writing practices of a speech community

Question 2

What does a speaker’s language repertoire define?

Answer 2

Their communcative comptence

Question 3

What is code switching?

Answer 3

The practice of moving back and forth between two languages , two dialects or reigesters of the same language

Question 4

Who is RP associated with?

Answer 4

Rich and powerful groups

Question 5

Why might the middle class adopt Estuary English?

Answer 5

To avoid the negative connatations of RP

Question 6

What may regional accent speakers do to their accent?

Answer 6

Upwardly converge it

Question 7

What can Men gain from downwardly coverging?

Answer 7

Covert prestige

Question 8

What are women more likely to do in terms of convergence?

Answer 8

Upwardly converge their accent and dialect

Question 9

How was RP viewed by the public? (Giles 1970)

Answer 9

With the highest status and intellegence , but seen as cold and ruthless

Question 10

What do attitudes towards accent tend to reflect?

Answer 10

Social sterotypes of people

Question 11

Which accent had the lowest status? (Giles 1970)

Answer 11

Regional urban accents

Question 12

How was Dialect lexis and semantics viewed by the media?

Answer 12

It is often celebrated (e.g Lol, TTYL) in the media

Question 13

How is non-standard grammar seen?

Answer 13

As wrong or bad

Question 14

Why is non-standard grammer judged by the upperclasses?

Answer 14

Its used as a shiboleth to judge or dismiss people as uneducated and lower class

Question 15

How did locals gain covert prestige on the Vineyard (Labov)

Answer 15

They converged to the local accent to seperate themselves from tourists

Question 16

What did Trugils study in Norwich suggest about womens hypercorrectness?

Answer 16

It suggests that women are far more likely to upwardly converge

Question 17

What did Chesires (1982) - ‘Reading teens’ study suggest about non-standard features of teen speak?

Answer 17

It suggests that non-standard features are a concious choice made by teens and are influenced by social group

Question 18

What is a grammatical feature of teenspeak?

Answer 18

The use of double negatives ( I ain’t never)

Question 19

What is a lexical feature of teenspeak?

Answer 19

Their use of tabbo language (e.g swearwords)

Question 20

Whats an example of teenspeaks spoken mode?

Answer 20

The use of ‘like’ as a filler

(E.g ‘He was like, 6 foot 4)

Question 21

What are two critisms of teen speak?

Answer 21

Its seen as lazy

Its accused of limiting teenagers vocab

Question 22

What are two strengths of teenspeak?

Answer 22

It allows code switching

It helps establish teenage identity

Question 23

What did Berstein write about?

Answer 23

Restricted and elaborated codes

Question 24

What does restricted and eleborated code mean? (Berstein)

Answer 24

It’s the theory that some individuals speak the restricted version of English, where as some have access to the ‘elaborated’ version, meaning that they excel in areas which use elaborated code (e.g schools)