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Thomas Pear 1931 |
People have different perceptions of a speaker according to their accent |
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Lance Workman |
(Psychology professor) Found those who said nothing were perceived as more intelligent than those who spoke with a Brummie accent. |
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Trughill 2000 |
RP speakers are considered unfriendly by non-RP speakers and children with working class accents may be perceived as having less education potential by teachers. |
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Seligman Tucker & Lambert 1972 |
Teachers' perceptions of students were heavily influenced by speech. |
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Choy & Dodd 1976 |
Supports Seligman,Tucker&Lambert. Found teachers made judgements on a student's ability and personality based on the way they speak. |
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Bonfiglio 2002 |
No language itself holds power, only what we attach to it. |
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Wolfram |
Overt prestige comes from closer to RP, covert from fitting in. |
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Dixon, Mahoney and Cocks 2002 |
People judged whether a 'suspect' was innocent or guilty- considered more guilty when Brummie. Matched guise approach. |
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Lambert 1960 |
Came up with Matched Guise approach used by Dixon, Mahoney and Cocks 2002. |
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Neuliep & Speten Hansen 2013 |
Tested for ethnocentricity. More ethnocentric the PP was, the lower the score they gave a non-native voice for attractiveness, credibility and like-them-selves-ness. |
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Howard Giles 1973 1975 |
1973- British teens heard speech about death penalty in different accents. More valued when in overtly prestigious accents. 1975- Group of 17yos listen to psychology talk in RP or Brummie accent; RP speaker rated higher in intelligence and competence. |
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Kerswill 2001 |
Dialect levelling because of - Reduction in rural employment -Social mobility - Increased interaction w/ other accents - Geographical mobility (millroy & millroy 2002) |
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Foulkes & Doherty (1999) |
Opposite of levelling- regional quirks are spreading. TH fronting spread from South London to Glasgow! |
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Paul Coggle 1993 |
Kids like Estuary English bc it's stylish/cool. No accent is intrinsically good or bad. |
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The Telegraph 2008 2012 2012 |
2008: Cool accents- RP best, Brummie worst. 2012: CEO hesitance to hire Essex (70%) or Cockney (49%) 2012: Home Counties best pilot, cockney (34%) and midlands worst (25%) |
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Thomas Paul |
Language itself is not powerful, it's the things we attach. |
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Milroy x2 (1978) |
3 communities in Belfast. Higher network strength= more nonstandard. Women and men equally so. |
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The Daily Mail 2013 |
4000 people rated accents on friendliness, trustworthiness and intelligence. Scouse least friendly/intelligent/trustworthy Devon and RP most friendly |
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Martha's Vineyard, Labov 1962 |
Diphthong pronunciation. Exaggerate it infront of outsiders. |
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Jenny Cheshire, Reading Study 1982 |
Rated on toughness and related to nonstandard use. Tougher = more nonstandard, showing personality and peers impacts language more than location as they all came from a park in Reading. |
