ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS
Topic outline
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Watch the YouTube video from 34:25 and make notes on where the following appear:
Convergence - where a speaker moves towards another speaker's accent, dialect or sociolect
Upward convergence - changing your accent or lexical choices to something you perceive as more prestigious
Downward convergence - making your accent or lexical choices more informal
Divergence - where a speaker actively distances themselves from another speaker by accentuating their own accent or dialect
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