Accent and dialect

    Cards (11)

    • Cockney rhyming slang
      Originated in East London
      • ‘Apples and pears’ = stairs
      Was first introduced as a code to communicate in working-class and criminals
    • Estuary English
      Term coined by David Rosewarne, describes the English spoken near the Thames. Features standard variations, received pronunciation, upper class.
    • Giles Matched Guise study
      RP speakers are :
      Intelligent
      Trustworthy
      Unfriendly
      Unsociable
    • Kerswill
      Through dialect levelling, accents and dialects are become more and more similar
    • Mugglestone
      Number of RP speakers is decreasing
    • Harrington
      Over a period of 50 years, the Queen’s speech has been diverging from RP.
    • Harbridge Joke study
      Surveyed 4000 people to find the funniest accent.
      • Brummie = funniest
      • Liverpudlian = second funniest
      • RP was least funny.
    • Mahoney Guilt experiment
      Students were played recordings of fake police interviews. Suspects have different accents.
      • Brummie was more likely to be judged as guilty
    • Coggle
      Estuary English acts as a bridge between Cockney and RP.
    • Dent
      Accents are like spoken birthmarks
    • Giles capital punishment study
      5 groups of students given infomation about capital punishment through a lecture. The lecturer had different accents.
      • RP was most impressive and persuasive
      • Brummie was least impressive