H/-dropping and occupational role in Stoke-on-Trent's pottery industry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3635120 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hannah Leach (0000-0002-0982-9638, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics Percy Building Newcastle University Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 350-373 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/josl.12472 |
| OpenAlex | W3157579291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 39 |
This article examines /h/-dropping in the occupational community of Stoke-on-Trent's pottery industry. Using oral history interviews, the article presents quantitative statistical analysis of linguistic and social factors influencing /h/-variation among these speakers, showing that specific occupational department is the best social predictor of levels of /h/-dropping. Speakers with more manual, factory-floor-based roles show consistently high rates of /h/-dropping, while speakers with less manual, more varied and/or esteemed roles show lower, and more variable, rates. This suggests a reanalysis of the broad social meanings of /h/ on a local level to enact a hierarchy internal to the industry. Qualitative analysis of individual speakers is employed to explore social meanings of /h/ in this community and how these create and reflect broader social categories. Discussion is linked to wider themes of the role of occupation in social class groupings used in variationist sociolinguistics, suggesting complexity within the classic 'working-class' category
Archaeology · Class (philosophy · Epistemology · Hierarchy · Linguistics · Political science · Pottery · Social class · Social hierarchy · Social science · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · History · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |