Female Regional Speech and Occupational Classification

SINCE LABOV'S (1966) PIONEERING WORK on subjective reaction testing, a number of studies have indicated that people evidence a range of reactions to different regional and social dialects. Some of these studies (such as Houck and Bowers 1969; Shuy and Fasold 1973; Lambert, Giles, and Picard 1975; Ryan and Giles 1982; and Preston 1982, 1986) have looked at responses to regional dialects represented in full speech samples while others (such as Habick 1980), and, more recently, Fraser 1987) have examined subjects' responses to specific phonological variants. During this same period, sociolinguists such as Coates (1986) have also noted differences in attitudes toward female versus male speech. Our study is concerned with attitudes toward female regional speech and occupational status represented in a full speech sample

Linguistics · Sociology · Gender Studies in Language · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Philosophy

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