Social Groups

Question 1

Social groups

Answer 1

The group of people that someone surrounds themselves with

Question 2

Social Stratification

Answer 2

Education
Income - divides people into classes
Employment

Question 3

Trudgill

Answer 3

People in Norwich drop the /g/ when saying ‘ing’, regain it based on formality

Question 4

Labov

Answer 4

NYC rotic /r/ sound when saying fourth floor, three different class stores; high class stores pronounced it first time, lower class pronounced it when asked to repeat themselves

Question 5

Penelope Eckert

Answer 5

Jocks and burnouts- Jocks had overt prestige,enthusiastic, accepted school values, pro-school subcultures. Burnouts weren’t bothered about school, swore more

Question 6

Bernstein

Answer 6

Social Codes- Closed and open network, closed networks have a higher density, the higher density points means a stronger accent

Question 7

Milroy - Social networking

Answer 7

Closed network - all possible connections know each other, high density
Open network - don’t all know each other, low density
Density - the higher the density the the stronger the accent

Question 8

Labov - Marthas Vineyard

Answer 8

High numbers of tourists, fishermen wanted to create distance so changed their pronunciation of diphthong vowel, other locals began to do the same, Covert prestige Divergence