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Unit 2: Language Issues and Original and Critical Writing (AS)
Quick questions on Language issues: standard English, power, gender, acquisition - WJEC A-Level English Language Unit 2
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Attitudes to standard and non-standard English in the data reveal a gap between linguistic reality and social judgement. The non-standard forms the speakers use (a regional past-tense form, a double negative) are not errors but features of a systematic dialect with its own rules, so linguistically they are the equal of the standard. Yet the data shows them attracting judgement: one speaker "corrects" another, treating the standard as proper and the regional form as careless, which reflects the overt prestige the standard has accumulated through its use in education and print.
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What is the difference between accent and dialect? [2 marks]
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Distinguish instrumental from influential power. [2 marks]
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Using the data, discuss attitudes towards non-standard varieties of English. [20 marks]
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