Education, class and vernacular awareness on Tyneside

Marie Møller Jensen

doi:10.1515/9783110450903-010

Education, class and vernacular awareness on Tyneside

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Abstract

This chapter reports on a questionnaire study investigating Tyneside
residents’ vernacular awareness and attested language use. Participant performance is interpreted on the basis of a cross-tabulation of participants’ social class as determined by their level of education and participants’ own identification.
The results indicate that participants’ self-identification is at odds with the
classification based on education and, furthermore, that the group of participants who identify as middle class but have low educational attainment behave significantly different from the other participants. This group consisted of mainly older female speakers and results are interpreted in light of first wave studies on the patterning of language use by class, age and gender. Finally, the issue of vernacular awareness is linked to social indexicality and it is suggested that an interpretation of participants as agents allows these two factors explanatory power.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Perspectives on Northern Englishes
Editors	Joan Beal, Sylvie Hancil
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Mouton de Gruyter
Publication date	Jul 2017
Pages	215-244
Chapter	10
ISBN (Print)	978-3-11-045090-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110450903-010
Publication status	Published - Jul 2017
Event	Northern British Conference - University of Rouen, Rouen, France Duration: 12 May 2014 → 13 May 2014 Conference number: 1

Conference

Conference	Northern British Conference
Number	1
Location	University of Rouen
Country/Territory	France
City	Rouen
Period	12/05/2014 → 13/05/2014

Series	Topics in English Linguistics
Volume	96
ISSN	1434-3452

Keywords

Tyneside English
Socioeconomic Factors
Social class
Identity
Sociolinguistics
language awareness

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