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- Title
Investigating attitudes towards an emerging standard of English: Evaluations of newscasters' accents in Trinidad.
- Authors
Deuber, Dagmar; Leung, Glenda-Alicia
- 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.
- Subjects
TRINIDAD; ENGLISH language; ACCENTS &; accentuation in the English language; TELEVISION journalists; RADIO journalists; PRESTIGE; STANDARDIZATION
- Publication
Multilingua, 2013, Vol 32, Issue 3, p289
- ISSN
0167-8507
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/multi-2013-0014