2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Study of Estuary English
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17520331
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kyoto Prefectural University (2006-2007)
Kobe City University of Foreign Studies (2005) |
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Principal Investigator |
SUGAYAMA Kensei Kyoto Prefectural University, Dept of English Linguistics, Professor (50162855)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Keywords | English Language / Estuary English / Phonetics / Sociolinguistics / Corpus Linguistics / Varieties of English |
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| Research Abstract |
This three years' research into Estuary English in the UK has looked at EE from the phonological, phonetic and sociolinguistic points of view, as well as under the aspects of prescriptivism and the social psychology of RP, which is still regarded as the standard of British English pronunciation in many environments.
Discussions of the new variety Estuary English (whose existence as a distinct variety is suggested by the existence of the popular name) and its status and significance have led to the conclusion that EE exists between RP and Cockney and is serving as a bridge between the various classes in SE England. So, for instance, upper class speakers can move 'down market' from RP towards Cockney (by adopting some, but not all the features of Cockney) and Cockney speakers can move 'upmarket' towards RP, discarding certain Cockney features and retaining ers.
An interesting aspect is that EE seems to be pushing out the traditional accents (of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Essex etc). It is shown that most young people in the SE now speak a version of EE-presumably because it is an urban and not a rural accent and lends them 'street cred'. As the regional accents of the Southeast indeed reveal a weaker presence of old regional variants, it is plausible that the levelling tendencies are at work.
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Research Products
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[Journal Article] 認知と言語2007
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菅山謙正
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Journal Title
八木克正編『新英語学概論』第2部4章(英宝社)
Pages: 98-107
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「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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[Journal Article] The Grammar of Be To2005
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Kensei Sugayama
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Journal Title
Abstracts, International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English(エディンバラ大学現代英語学国際会議抄録)
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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