RT bachelor thesis
T1 Boundaries between RP and Estuary English: linguistic attitudes from native speakers towards their own accents
T2 Fronteras entre el RP y el inglés del estuario: actitudes lingüísticas de hablantes nativos hacia sus propios acentos
A1 Reyes Martínez, Elena
A2 Filología Francesa e Inglesa
K1 British English
K1 Received Pronunciation
K1 RP
K1 Estuary English
K1 EE
K1 England
K1 South-east
K1 London
K1 native
K1 Rosewarne
K1 Wells
K1 accents
K1 linguistic attitudes
K1 Inglés británico
K1 Inglés del estuario
K1 Inglaterra
K1 Suroeste
K1 Londres
K1 nativo
K1 acentos
K1 actitudes lingüísticas
AB The following research will walk us through the history of British English language. The initial objective was to find out how the perception of the native British English speakers is changing towards their own accents nowadays. We will focus on the Received Pronunciation accent, which has been the model of the Standard British form. Later we will compare it to a brand-new accent called Estuary English, term coined by Rosewarne in 1984. After that the theories of some of the most important linguists that have theorised on this topic will be exposed in order to have a look at the on-going debate on whether Estuary English accent should be considered as such or not. The main hypothesis was the suspicion that this so-called Estuary accent is currently gaining acceptability in Britain. On the basis of a phonetic point of view, so that the previous hypothesis is proved, two anonymous recordings of two different native speakers (one is an RP speaker and the other one is an EE) together with a questionnaire for each recording about linguistic attitudes to a total of 12 informants. These subjects are between the ages of 19 to 25 years old, all native British teenagers born and raised in the South-east part of England, especially London (the place where phoneticians localise EE accent). Our previous study was made considering the results of the questionnaire (see Appendix 2), bearing in mind the following hypothesis to be tested (besides the main one): in the first place, the subjects’ familiarity with accents will affect their acceptance of different varieties of English; second, young generations of native British English can find EE as good of a model for EFL teaching as RP; third, natives will agree on the fact that there exist moral associations with accents; and fourth, the subjects might find it hard to specifically localise the Estuary speaker.
YR 2019
FD 2019-09-03
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/23566
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/23566
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 06-nov-2026