penelope eckert's jocks + burnouts study

Question 1

what type of study is this?

Answer 1

ethnographic - representative sample.

Question 2

what did Eckert find about language differences?

Answer 2

• language differences were more closely linked to communities of practice rather than to specific social differences (class, ethnicity, gender etc.).


Question 3

regardless of someones background…

Answer 3

they were more likely to speak like someone who shared an interest or activity with them than with someone who didn’t.

Question 4

how did the study show that vowel variation occurred?

Answer 4

different social factors such as age and gender and because of people being part of different communities of practice.