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Sex, covert prestige and linguistic change in the urban British English of Norwich
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Women use linguistic forms associated with the prestige standard more frequently than men. One reason for this is that working-class speech has favourable connotations for male speakers. Favourable attitudes to non-standard speech are not normally expressed, however, and emerge only in inaccurate self-evaluation test responses. Patterns of sex differentiation deviating from the norm indicate that a linguistic change is taking place: standard forms are introduced by middle-class women, non-standard forms by working-class men. (Sociolinguistic variation; linguistic change; women's and men's speech; contextual styles; social class; British English.)
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- Authors
- Trudgill, P.
- Venue
- Language in Society
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1972-10
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 179-195
- ISSN
- 0047-4045 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8013
- OpenAlex
- W2116982164
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- References
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- FWCI
- 33.48
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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