Accent, dialect and gender bias in language
Accent
Accent is a distinctive way of pronouncing words and is usually determined by the person’s regional or cultural background or native language. Some accents are seen to be very aggressive, for example, the
Glaswegian accent. Some other accents give the impression that the person is a bit slow for example, the Cornish accent. There are many different accents in Britain alone. Accents can change within a very small distance for example, in the midlands the Birmingham accent is very different from the Stoke accent. By listening to somebody’s accent you can normally tell which part of the country they come from.
Advertisements use accents in different ways depending on what they are trying to sell. For example, when a company is trying to sell a designer perfume they are not very likely to use a woman with a strong Glaswegian accent who sounds aggressive. They are much more likely to use a woman with a soft accent. (Class notes)
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Some good points are made about differences in dialects and accents. However, a general introduction is needed, to set out the aims and scope of the essay, including why the writer has limited this to a few British accents only. Similarly, there is no conclusion to draw together the points raised in the main body of the essay. The sections on accent and dialect need further development, with more concrete examples, while the section on gender bias is too long and much too general, with little support for the points. The writer here exposes his/her own evidently unconscious bias so this section is far from objective. This section is loosely structured and would be much better if presented as one paragraph. Punctuation is frequently inappropriate and there are many words split into two parts by a random space. Referencing should follow a conventional format, such as the Harvard Referencing System. 3 stars