This document discusses exam technique for answering questions on prestige and language variation. It covers overt and covert prestige, the types of prestige associated with education, wealth, and class. Solidarity and identity prestige are discussed. Language phenomena like anti-language, pidginization, and creolization are mentioned. The document lists sociolinguists like Edwards, Cheshire, Trudgill, Labov, Sebba, and Fox. Attributes linked to language variation include aesthetic appeal, correctness, laziness, status, intelligence, and trustworthiness.

1. Filling in the Blanks
AO2 & AO3 Fest

2. Exam technique: Can be used
throughout essay in both BP 1 & BP
2
A good understanding of these is
awarded marks in B band of the
mark scheme

3. Overt
•Seeking prestige by
assimilating to the standard.
Covert
•Choosing to differ from the
standard.

4. Which kind of
prestige would
we link with
this?
Educated
Wealthy
Intelligent
Upper class

5. Solidarity (e.g.
young people
imitating fishermen
on Martha’s
Vineyard)
Identity (e.g.
Martha’s Vineyard
fishermen)
What kind of
prestige would we
associate with this?

7. Anti-language/Cryptolect
Pidginisation
Creolisation
Koineisation
Code-switching
Sociolinguistic maturation

9. Edwards & Cheshire
Petyt
Trudgill
Labov x 2
Sebba
Fox
Edwards

10. Aesthetic appeal
(pleasantness)
correctness
laziness
status
Intelligence
Trustworthiness