Question 3 Flashcards
Peter Trudgill
- Descriptivist.
- Believed that all languages are equally ‘good’ and there is no way of evaluating any more favourably than any other.
Who coined the term ‘Estuary English’?
David Rosewarne
What did William Labov find in his 1966 study in New York?
- Upper Middle Class cohort differed least between the casual and careful speech styles – (19% in casual and 60% in careful).
- This showed they paid the least attention to the way they spoke.
Accent
The way in which words are produced.
Dialect:
Vocab choices, grammar and pronunciation.
Where is the cockney accent normally used now?
Kent and Essex.
Who found that MLE is most commonly used with second and third generation immigrants?
Sue Fox (London University’s queen Mary College).
How does MLE differ to Cockney?
Clipped vowels in comparison to the cockney tendency to stretch vowels.
Where else does Fox say the accent takes influence from?
India, West Africa, and Australia.
According to Paul Keswill why is MLE most common in teens?
-They are more likely to take on visible or audible symbols of group identification.
