https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/accdiatheory Write your ideas here en-us 2021-06-14 11:47:26 UTC 2025-09-24 08:29:01 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/accdiatheory/wish/1620265488 Penelope Eckert- studied what she called as 'jocks' and ' burnouts' and how the burnouts spoke ungrammatically and used exaggerated urban pronunciations. Burnouts used more swearing. The jocks spoke in a socially prestigious accents, which could be to do with their high social class. ]]> 2021-06-22 19:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/accdiatheory/wish/1620265488 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/accdiatheory/wish/1620274360 Howard Giles - concept of ' communication accomodation theory' how we change our language and the way we speak depending on who we are speaking too. 'convergence' - making language more like the people who we are speaking too. 
Could also be used to assert dominance or superiority we would then use ' divergence' - emphasising the difference in our language then the person we are talking too. ]]> 2021-06-22 19:36:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/accdiatheory/wish/1620274360 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/accdiatheory/wish/1620280909 Peter Trudgill - speech variaton in Norwich. ng is dropped and it is 'droppin' 'walkin' or 'talkin'. He claims this was not subject to Norwhich only. 
In all social classes , the more careful speech , the more likely people were to say 'ing'. The proportion of 'walkin' types forms was higher in lower social classes.
Men tended to say that they used the non-standard '-in' forms forms more often than they really did. ]]> 2021-06-22 19:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/accdiatheory/wish/1620280909 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/accdiatheory/wish/1621458275 Bradford dialect case study- he found that the non-standard language and social class are interlinked. The lower the class, the less the 'h' was used (Upper WC= 12% and the Lower WC= 93%)]]> 2021-06-23 10:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/accdiatheory/wish/1621458275 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/accdiatheory/wish/1621458728 Saw language as 'fundamental' to creation of identity ]]> 2021-06-23 10:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/accdiatheory/wish/1621458728 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/accdiatheory/wish/1632158868 Ran a survey to rate UK accents in relation to how appealing they sound to businesspeople
79% believed a strong regional accent would be a negative.

Scottish was the only successful accent, 43% said they were "successful", 40% "hardworking and reliable", 31% trustworthy, overall very positive.
Liverpool's was the worst, 15% believed them to be successful, 9% hardworking and 8% trustworthy. ]]> 2021-06-30 18:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/accdiatheory/wish/1632158868 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/accdiatheory/wish/1632162086 Code switching, where someone switches between two languages or dialects. When he questioned 8 teenage boys, he was given evidence that it was a conscious choice to code switch, for example speaking english with friends and speaking punjabi with family. ]]> 2021-06-30 18:45:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/accdiatheory/wish/1632162086