Social Class Theory Flashcards
Varieties Revision
Tajfel (1979) said that the groups such as social class, family, football team etc. which people belonged to were an important source of _ _ _ _ _ and self-esteem.
Pride
Tajfel proposed that when we put people into groups and categories (stereotyping) we tend to exaggerate the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ between things in the same group.
Similarities
Tajfel proposed that when we put people into groups and categories (stereotyping) we tend to exaggerate the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ between groups
Differences
A prestige variety is a type of language that carries _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ connotations
Positive
A stigmatised variety is one that carries _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ connotations
Negative
Accent describes the _ _ _ _ _ _ that people make when they pronounce words.
Sounds
English has one non-regional accent. What is it?
Received Pronunciation
Which social class is Received Pronunciation often associated with?
Upper or Middle Class. NOT WORKING CLASS
There is only one regionless accent. Which one is it?
Received Pronunciation
Dialect describes the _ _ _ _ _ and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ that people use
Words and grammar
English has a non-regional dialect. What is it?
Standard English
What is the prestige dialect of British English?
Standard English
The prestige of a variety describes the _ _ _ _ _ that members of a speech community place on it.
Value
R.P. and Standard English have ‘_ _ _ _ prestige’ because they’re associated with rich, educated, powerful or successful people.
high
This kind of prestige that R.P and Standard English is called ‘_ _ _ _ _ prestige’ as the benefits it brings, such as a positive social image, are obvious.
Overt
Non-prestige forms sometimes have ‘_ _ _ _ _ _ prestige.’ This means that speakers maintain the use of non-prestige forms in order to appear tough or to display pride and loyalty to one’s class or home.
Covert
Working class varieties of speech (for examples those of Liverpool or Birmingham) are often the most ‘_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ varieties.’
Stigmatised
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ varieties have low social status and they carry with them connotations of unemployment, poverty, criminality, lack of sophistication, lack of education and lack of ambition.
Stigmatised
Prescriptivism attemps to say what language _ _ _ _ _ _ be like
should
Descriptivism attempts to say what language is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ like rather than what it should be like.
actually
Descriptivist don’t refer to right and wrong or good and bad in language but instead describe the kinds of language people really _ _ _
use
Prescriptivists tend to correct people into _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ English and RP-like forms
standard
Change the following into what a prescriptivist would deem correct: You and me should do it.
You and I should do it
What would you call the following term: I haven’t got nothing.
Multiple negation