here's some feedback on the articles you wrote - read what you wrote and what I wrote first and then read the following for future pieces for me and in the exam:
- bibliographies are vital (not in the exam, obviously, but for me) and should show a range of reading
- what are the conventions of the text type you are writing (see below)?
- title to hook the audience is vital or no-one will read it - it should suit your stated audience (you have to state your audience e.g. Guardian readers, Elle readers, Daily Mail readers, your blog followers)
- a reason for writing - something that has happened to stimulate writing about the issue e.g. a survey, something in the news, an anecdote etc.
- strapline for articles, intro for blogs
- image and caption
- quotes and examples
- avoid jargon non-linguists won't know e.g. sociolect, idiolect
Today, I would like you to research the following topics (they are findings from research done into accents and dialects). You will be assigned one to become a specialist in and you will be posting notes about findings, reliability and any relevant links you can make (and a bibliography) to your blog to be finished by next Monday if not today - be ready to explain the findings in class (you can make reference to your blog or notes):
- Labov's 1966 research in New york department stores
- Trudgill's 1964 Norwich study of the effect of class on accent
- Milroy 1987 Belfast accents
- Eckert 2000 jocks and burnouts
- Cheshire 1982 teenagers in Reading
- Bernstein restricted and elaborated code
- Lave and Wenger 1991 communities of practice
- Milroy and Milroy 2014 grammatical differences in dialects
- Labov 1963 Martha's Vineyard (covert prestige)
- Giles 1970s matched guise technique
- Watson 2000s spread of Estuary English
- Identify some of the ways in which dialects vary grammatically, giving examples
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