Here is an emagazine article on attitudes to accent. Take some notes on examples of reactions to different accents and why it is news. Sign into emagazine first and then copy this into the browser: https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/e-magazine/articles/15741
Revise some of the key ideas from the topic by doing some research on:
- Giles (matched guise)
- Cheshire (Reading study)
- Trudgill (Norwich)
- Labov (fourth floor and Martha's Vineyard)
- Milroy & Milroy (closed network)
- Kerswill (Milton Keynes)
- Baugh (linguistic profiling)
- accent surveys (e.g. Comres)
- dialect levelling
and anything else you like! Memorise quotes and statistics you can use to explore these.
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