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Friday, 6 May 2016

Accent and Dialect - attitudes to accents/dialects, opinion

This article is opinionated (look at the techniques - interestingly, Carey thinks 'covert prestige' doesn't need transforming but I would definitely do so in the exam) and contains some good quotes and references for AS Paper 2.

This is a link from that article to another by wonderful writer David Almond (Skellig etc.) written in eye dialect (phonetic spelling - which is a misnomer because, don't worry, it doesn't use phonetic transcription symbols). A very passionate response and one that uses a technique you can use - invented spellings to represent accent which could spice up your opinion pieces.

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