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This 10 page paper discusses the following question. What is meant by a 'social accent'? How far can recent changes in RP itself or changes in attitudes towards RP be accounted for by changes in society? The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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society? It is well known that there are regional variations in any language, the ability of an individual to understand a common
language but reflect the local pattern of speech is recognised and accepted (Collins and Mees 2). Just as there are regional variations it is also possible to find individual
in the same region with different accents, a different that is not accounted for as a result of region but one of class.
The dominant model of language used for English has been that of RP; Received Pronunciation. This itself may be seen as an accent w, which although the model of
English which is taught to those looking at English as a second language, and is seen as embodying the langue as a whole, even this has its roots in class
division. By looking at the concept of RP and how this fits in with the idea of a social accent we can consider how far recent changes in RP
itself or changes in attitudes towards RP be accounted for by changes in society. RP was used by the first editor of the
English Pronouncing Dictionary and the model of pronunciation that he preferred (Tench 107). The editor; Daniel Jones, referred to the accent he preferred and which was used as a guide
in the dictionary as the "Public School Pronunciation" (PSP) (Tench 107). This was not only the English accent he wanted to put
forward, but one that was also very clearly class orientated. This was a time when although education was becoming more widespread the use of public school, was, as it still
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