# data[].attributes.body
Convergence - changing your register to be closer to someone else
Divergence - changing your register to be further from someone else

# data[].attributes.body
Divergence - altering your register to disassociate from another.

# data[].attributes.body
Working class tend to use more colloquial language, links with the h dropping study by Petyt in Bradford.

# data[].attributes.body
Yorkshire is the most trusted accent

# data[].attributes.body
Found there was a close relationship between class and 'h' dropping.

# data[].attributes.body
Said men were more likely to use covert prestige to appear tough.

# data[].attributes.body
portrays northeners as stupid and lazy

# data[].attributes.body
The essex accent in the media is presented with stupidity

# data[].attributes.body
Media often portrays people with Northern accents as stupid and criminal.

# data[].attributes.body
Petyt- dropping the h in Bradford

# data[].attributes.body
Probability- could, should, may, can

# data[].attributes.body
Found that upper-middle class speakers used 'r' more than lower-middle class speakers.

# data[].attributes.body
words given in a topic

# data[].attributes.body
change from above
change from below

# data[].attributes.body
Men are less formal than women

# data[].attributes.body
Fishermen deliberately diverging from Americans because they didn't like them. Younger fishermen them changed dialect to meet older ones.

# data[].attributes.body
Sounds- onomatoepia, assonacne, ellisions and sibilance

# data[].attributes.body
RP- received pronunciation

# data[].attributes.body
a statement

# data[].attributes.body
Open network - influenced by lots of different accents, dialects and external factors.
Closed network - less influence from outside.

# data[].attributes.body
an instruction

# data[].attributes.body
Labov- looked at how different classes said New York

# data[].attributes.body
a question

# data[].attributes.body
something emphasiesed

# data[].attributes.body
Halliday's functions of language- personal, insturmental