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1. Investigating attitudes towards an emerging standard of English: Evaluations of newscasters' accents in Trinidad.

Author

Deuber, Dagmar and Leung, Glenda-Alicia

Subjects
ENGLISH language, ACCENTS & accentuation in the English language, TELEVISION journalists, RADIO journalists, PRESTIGE, STANDARDIZATION
Abstract

The article presents a study which investigated the attitudes of people in Trinidad towards emerging English standard and evaluated the accents of newscasters. The study asked the subjects to evaluate the presumed different speakers based on social prestige and social attractiveness. Results revealed that a local accent showing many features shared with English-based Creole in Trinidad was disfavoured by the respondents.

Published
2013
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