An Internal And External Influence Of Extralinguistic Factors On Cockney Dialect

Abstract

The article highlights topical issues of social marking of speech. The significance of the research has been determined by the need to establish the presence of various markers in speech and their influence on the pronunciation system, thus allowing us to trace the general tendencies that occur in modern society. Through the age factor, which we regard as the index feature of a person, we attempt to determine the degree of pronunciation variability as well as to identify direct and indirect relationships between this extralinguistic factor and phonology of native English speakers. The postulate that the older generation adheres to conservative pronunciation can be partially refuted by the results of the conducted auditory analysis of modern speech of the native English-speakers. Having the policy of multiculturalism, mass communication, issues of social adaptation and accommodation of pronunciation in the focus of our study, we find proof that the influence of those aspects on speech behaviour leads to the formation of the image of a person, their speech portrait and self-identification in a speech community. Our analysis also shows that the traditional working-class accent is alive and has an impact on other variants of the English language, on representatives of various social classes and age groups.

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