CMN 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Impression Formation, Speech Community, Asymptote
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What you say can influence what people think of you. Ex: person had thicker accent when they were talking about. Alabama, compared to when they were talking about a different topic. Study 1: class & pronunciation (labov, 1972) Researcher asked people where an area was, expecting them to respond on the fourth floor . Higher status - r was more articulate. Lower status - r was less pronounced. Study 2: perceptions of speakers" pronunciations (labov, 1966) Standard variety us english vs. nonstandard varieties. Standard - meaning what accent do most people speak. Accent perception of speaker group judgment of group. You hear accent & then you associate some social affiliation. Ex: hear accent & conclude, this person must be from the south then add status, like this person isn"t speaking very eloquently, so they must have low status . Ex: based on accent may assume low status, but then will consider more info.
