English accents

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English accents

• 1. English is full of variation

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Ways of defining RP

• sociolinguistic
• what do the upper class actually
  do?(upper-middle classes, educated classes)
• ideal
• what is correct?(beautiful, widely accepted,
  understood everywhere)
• localizability
• what is not localizable (within England)?
• EFL
• what do we teach foreign learners?

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