Group 3's Presentation

Finally, here is our completed presentation.

One slight problem is that we had embedded two videos from Youtube into one of the slides, as these are clips from the TV programmes which our question is based on. AuthorSTREAM apparently doesn't like the youtube clips and has not uploaded them.

Any suggestions on how we can solve this?

Thanks.

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Sorry I’ve been so late in posting my results!!! 6 participants were asked to complete the questionnaire. They were made up of 3 male and 3 female all from the west midlands. Below are my results which were collected;

1. ‘The accent in the television programme ‘Made in Chelsea’ is more approachable than the one in ‘Geordie Shore’’.

Indicate how far you agree or disagree with this statement (1 is ‘strongly disagree’ and 5 is ‘strongly agree’):

Participant 1; 3

Participant 2; 4

Participant 3; 2

Participant 4; 3

Participant 5; 2

Participant 6; 2

On average it was found that the participants didn’t find the Chelsea accent particularly approachable. This may be because all those that responded to the questionnaire have broad midlands accents which are very different to the accent featured in MLC and so this reflects in the feeling that the accent is not more approachable than that in GS. Furthermore, GS provides a more non-standard form similar to that of the midlands accent.

2. The representation of accent in Geordie Shore is attractive.

Indicate how far you agree or disagree with this statement (1 is ‘strongly disagree’ and 5 is ‘strongly agree’):

Participant 1; 2

Participant 2; 1

Participant 3; 3

Participant 4; 3

Participant 5; 2

Participant 6; 3

On average the participants seem to be impartial to the way that they view the Geordie accent in terms of attractiveness. Once again this may be accounted for through the less standard use of language as featured in the midlands accent

3. ‘By listening to both the accents, it is clear as to which social class these characters belong’.

To what extent do you agree with this statement? (1 is ‘strongly disagree’ and 5 is ‘strongly agree’)

Participant 1; 5

Participant 2; 4

Participant 3; 5

Participant 4; 5

Participant 5; 4

Participant 6; 5

Here, the results clearly show that the accent tells the participants something about the social class to which the characters belong. This shows that people do see a correlation between the accents that people use and the social class to which they belong.

4. Circle the words in which you think the pronunciation of the vowels is typical of a ‘BBC accent (as found in the ‘Made in Chelsea’ accent).

Talk 3
Newspaper 6
Captain 2
Watertight 6
Cake 2
Awkward 4
Granted 6
Play 2
Royal 2
Dance 6

All the people I asked were from the west midlands area and so it shows that people who don’t have use standard pronunciation still have an awareness of what the Received form. It shows that people have an understanding of what a more prestigious word form or pronunciation might be.

5. ‘How do the accents in the two programmes contribute to your ideas about social expectations and class within the areas of Newcastle and Chelsea?’:

Participant 1; The language used is a representation of where people come from and the way in which they socialise and so inevitably influences how I perceive people from these areas.

Participant 2; If people speak with a more standard language then I would expect them to be from a higher social class.

Participant 3; If people speak posh I believe them to be of a more affluent educational and social background and so from the higher classes.

Participant 4; Language represent who we are and where we come from so if a person uses RP, then they are exposed to a more prestige language form and so I presume they would be from a more posh background.

Participant 5; No. There are other factors influencing a person’s social standing.

Participant 6; If someone is more well-spoken then you would expect them to be of a higher class.

This question shows that the way in which people perceive social class is reliant upon accent and dialect.

Natalie x

here are the last two of mine so we should have plenty now, especially if nat has done hers too...
1. 1/1
2. 3/5
3. 5/5

4. captain/watertight/awkward/granted
talk/captain/watertight/granted/royal

5. -their accents reinforce stereotypes from other media outlets and produce certain social expectations. MIC that everyone is posh and snobby and the respondent would feel uncomfortable talking to the chararcters from MIC
Respondent would feel less judged by those with the GS accent despite it being less attractive and resinforces the stereotype of them belonging to a lower social class.

-People in Newcastle are generally of a lower class than those from Chelsea- the more the accent deviates from London the more the respondent associates it with people living in socially inferior societies.

Bronwyn's results

I asked a variety of participants; one from the north of England, three from the Midlands and one from near London.

1. Varied response to this question, but 3/5 agreed that the MIC accent was more approachable than the GS one. One of the other participants disagreed and another neither agreed nor disagreed.

participant	1	2	3	4	5
Scale of 1 to 5 1- strongly disagree 5-strongly agree	4	3	5	4	2

The results are very close, but they do show that the majority of people think that the MIC accent is more approachable that the GS one. Although I was surprised that one of the participants disagreed, and one neither agreed nor disagreed. This could show that not everyone thinks that the approachability of a person is based on their accent.

2. One participant strongly disagreed that the GS accent was attractive, 2 disagreed that it was attractive, and another 2 neither agreed nor disagreed.

Participant	1	2	3	4	5
Scale of 1 to 5 1- strongly disagree 5-strongly agree	3	2	1	2	3

Again, with 3/5 people disagreed with the statement that the accent was attractive, but another 2 neither agreeing nor disagreeing, this could show that like approachability, attractiveness is not always rated on accent, and that not everyone thinks that accents can be attractive or unattractive.

3. One participant strongly agreed with the statement in question 3 and 1 strongly disagreed. 2 others agreed and 1 other disagreed.

Participant	1	2	3	4	5
Scale of 1 to 5 1- strongly disagree 5-strongly agree	2	4	5	4	1

There seems to be a pattern in my results that there will always be an almost balance on agreement and disagreement of the judgement of the GS and MIC accents. But it remains once again that the majority agreed that you could tell which social class the characters belonged to due to their accent.

4.

Words	Participant 1	Participant 2	Participant 3	Participant 4	Participant 5	Total
Talk		Yes	Yes		yes	3
Newspaper	yes	Yes		Yes		3
Captain		Yes				1
Watertight		Yes	Yes		Yes	3
Cake	yes	Yes		Yes	Yes	4
Awkward		Yes	Yes		Yes	3
Granted	yes	Yes		Yes		3
Play		Yes			Yes	2
Royal		Yes		Yes	yes	3
Dance	yes	yes	yes	yes		4

5.

Didn’t evoke class distinctions	Working class northerners-GS Upper class Londoners	Accents exaggerated/encourage viewers to see the characters as conforming to stereotypes
1	4	2

Interestingly, one participant didn’t think their accents reflected their social background, as they were used in different contexts and situations of men with different obsessions (GS-self image, dating, MIC-status and possessions). However, 80% of the participants thought that the accents did reflect social background, but only half of those participants said that this was emphasized to encourage the viewers to assume the characters’ social statuses.

-By looking at my results I think the majority of people may judge the accent in the programs, but 2 of my participants have noted that they seem to be exaggerated in order to influence the audience, and thus push them to make judgements about these accents.

Presentation Distribution

Yesterday Kasey, Elsa, Bronwyn and myself met to discuss how to create our presentation and how best to show individual results and the group trends that we found overall.

We also decided to refine how our question was written so rephrased it to make it more understandable.

'To what extent do regional accents featured in the TV shows Made In Chelsea and Geordie Shore act as a reflection of social class.'

The following are the titles of the slides which will make up our powerpoint presentation and who we have distributed them to.

Title Page - Natalie

Introduction - Natalie

Background Reading - Melissa

Similar Studies - Melissa

Phonological Transcriptions - Each group member has an individual page with example of own transcription and what inspired us to chose our question.

Research Method - Elsa

Example of Questionnaire - Elsa

Results - Each member produces a page with a graph and evaluation for the question they wrote but using ALL the groups results.

Analysis In Relation to Question -Kasey

Evaluation - Bronwyn

Credits - Bronwyn

We have also decided to just use the results obtained by Elsa, Bronwyn, Kasey and myself as we don't know if Natalie has distributed hers or got results to use due breakdown in communication. We felt this would be best rather than postponing doing our work whilst waiting on that.

We plan to each create our slides along with the voice narration and email them to Elsa who is going to put them together.

We are then meeting at 4pm on Friday to view the presentation, make sure it works with the sound and if anything needs to be edited etc and hopefully have it completed!!!

ok so hopefully by tonight I will have a few more to add to this, but I think once we have all posted we will have enough results to analyse...
1. MIC is approachable
3/4/4/4

2. GS is attractive
3/3/2/2

3. Accents good rep of social class
4/3/3/2

4. words typical of BBC English
granted /dance
talk/ captain / watertight/ granted/ dance
talk/watertight/awkward/dance
granted/dance

5. How the accents in the clip contribute to your ideas about social class

-Stereotypically Newcastle represents a lower class and Chelsea a higher class, watching the clips you stick with those assumptions

-The Newcastle accent is much harder to understand and the MIC is one that you hear much more on television eg. news

-GS makes it seem like people from Newcastle are from a lower class than those is MIC though this isn't necessarily true

-Stereotypes make you think that those from Newcastle are of a lower class and those from Chelsea a higher class. Respondent tries not to follow this but watching GS does make you think they are less intelligent and of a lower social rank. Also finds ths MIC not that attractive as it comes across as 'stuck up'