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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
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- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv6tBcJjfY0
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- What information can you guess about someone from their accent?
- region? age? social class? education? intelligence? gender? sexual orientation? race?
- Do you feel like you have an accent in your native language?
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- Watch the video and take notes in whatever way you find easiest.
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- Most of the time, how do people decide which accent of their language is “standard”? (for example in England and France)
- - The standard accent is the accent of powerful people (in the US this meant powerful people from your same region).
- Why did a Midwestern accent become the standard in American radio broadcasts? (why NOT big powerful cities like New York City or Boston or Philadelphia?)
- - Those cities had a lot of immigrants, and many Americans felt like the accents of those cities were being “contaminated” by foreign accents.
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- What were some things that made this talk more difficult than the one on Friday?
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- http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=19934 - article about the “gay accent” in English, and other “unnatural” ways of speaking
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