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in’/ ing patterns across English

in’/ ing patterns across English. What does wanna tell you?. from: Dennis Preston 1985 The Li’l Abner Syndrome: Written representations of speech. American Speech 60(4). 328-336. What did wanna trigger?. ‘ Speakers ’ 1 & 2 NO non-standard; YES fast speech for ‘Speaker’ 2

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in’/ ing patterns across English

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  1. in’/ing patterns across English

  2. What does wanna tell you? from: Dennis Preston 1985 The Li’lAbner Syndrome: Written representations of speech. American Speech 60(4). 328-336.

  3. What did wanna trigger? • ‘Speakers’1 & 2 • NO non-standard; YES fast speech for ‘Speaker’ 2 • Higher scores on social attributes like education, wealth, status than ‘Speakers’3 & 4 • Marking fast speech has some social cost: • ‘Speaker’ 1 ranked higher than ‘Speaker’2 • the wanna ‘speaker’ sounds less educated, lower status, not as rich

  4. Language as style Guy is a lawyer in Honolulu. In court, and when meeting with clients, he wears a suit and tie and he speaks the “General” variety of American English he acquired growing up in a family that moved often. Outside work hours, he wears T-shirts and jeans, and when he stops an employee at the drugstore to ask for help, he switches into Pidgin, “Cuz, get dakine pukka beads here?” (‘Hey mate, do you have any of those, like, surfer beads here?’).

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