The Reflection of Social Facts in Linguistic Awareness (original) (raw)

15 5 30 3 At both sites, the majority of speakers think there is a local accent • Rural: the group thinking there is an accent is significantly younger than the group thinking there isn't • Urban: the group thinking there is an accent is of significantly higher socioeconomic class and occupation than the group thinking there isn't Reasoning: if you don't think there is a specific way of speaking which is different from elsewhere, that's because the local accent is the way you yourself speak. Thus: