Emergency Cards

Question 1

Ives 2014

Answer 1

British Asain Youths use language differently to their elders in an attempt to create a well defined social group

Question 2

Functional Theory

Answer 2

Language changes because society does, it changes to suit the needs of its speakers

Question 3

Cameron 1995

Answer 3

Stated in her book “verbal hygiene” that PC language causes anxiety as it threatens the power of certain social groups

Question 4

Sapir-whorf hypothesis

Answer 4

Our language constructs the way we view the world, changing language changes our attitudes

Question 5

Trudgill Norwich Study

Answer 5

His study found that woman’s pronunciation is closer to RP than men’s

He asked 60 people in Norwich with a range of class and age and asked them to pronounce words with ‘-ing’ and found more men G-drop

Question 6

Howard Giles

Answer 6

Suggests that we adjust our speech to accommodate who we are talking to

Question 7

Matched Guise Test

Answer 7

People listen to audio recordings of people of different languages and dialects and make judgements

Question 8

Leslie Milroy

Answer 8

Argues that increased geographical mobility leads to the disruption of localised networks

Question 9

Dialect Levelling

Answer 9

The process that regional features of a speech group converge toward a common norm over time

Question 10

Jennifer Coates

Answer 10

• She found that men will often reject a top of conversation introduced in conversation while woman do the opposite
• Men will discuss ‘male’ topics
• Woman are more likely to initiate conversation than men