peter trudgill's norwich study

Question 1

what did Trudgill show people in the self-evaluation tests?

Answer 1

• prestigious and stigmatised pronunciation and asked them to say which they thought they normally used.

Question 2

what was trudgill able to compare?

Answer 2

how people actually speak compared with how they thought they did.

Question 3

what did he find about women?

Answer 3

tend to over-report (claim they’re using the prestigious variant when they actually don’t).

Question 4

what did he find out about men?

Answer 4

men of all classes tend to under-report (claim they used the non-standard form when in fact they use the prestigious one).

Question 5

what does this study suggest?

Answer 5

men and women as well as upper and lower class are aiming to speak a different type of language.