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- "queen?s" English
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The Queen's English or The Received Pronunciation
Received Pronunciation, often abbreviated to RP, is an accent of spoken English. Unlike other UK accents, it's identified not so much with a particular region as with a particular social group, although it has connections with the accent of Southern England. RP is associated with educated speakers and formal speech. It has connotations of prestige and authority, but also of privilege and arrogance.
Some people even think that the name 'Received Pronunciation' is a problem - if only some accents or pronunciations are 'received', then the implication is that others should be rejected or refused.When writing his pronouncing dictionary in 1916, phonetician Daniel Jones described RP as the accent "most usually heard in everyday speech in the families of Southern English persons whose menfolk have been educated at the great public boarding schools". Although this description would raise a few eyebrows today, RP is still the accent generally represented in dictionaries which give pronunciations, and it's also used as a model for the teaching of English as a foreign language.
Perhaps for this reason, RP is often thought of as an unchanging accent; a standard against which other accents can be measured or judged. Some people don't even think of it as an accent at all, but rather a way of speaking without an accent.
Speaking without an accent, though, would be like painting without a colour! In fact, there is considerable variation within groups of people who are said to speak RP, the term is differently interpreted by different people, and RP itself has changed considerably over time.
To know further...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/yourvoice/rpandbbc.shtml
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- How To Fake A Convincing American Accent
Edited by Brigitta M 1 - Determine the region you wish toimitate. Knowing the difference between a Texans drawland the southern style of someone from Mississippi or Tennessee can make aworld of difference. Midwestern accents from areas such...
- Which Pronunciation Should We Teach Our Students? [part Two]
By Jennifer Let me address the teacher?s own speech in greater detail. This is an important factor to consider in answering our main question about which pronunciation we should teach our students. It is not so simple to say, for example, that standard...
- Which Pronunciation Should We Teach Our Students? [part One]
By Jennifer This question was posed by a woman training for her teaching certificate in an EFL program. Her background information is very relevant, and it prompts me to identify the most salient factor to be the context in which we are teaching: EFL...
- "queen?s" English
Background of "Queen?s" English: The notion of the "Queen?s" English or "King?s" English, depending on who is the ruler of the time, can be traced back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries where the idea that the monarch?s usage of the language...
- Myth #7"studying Pronunciation Is Not Important"
© Tomasz P. Szynalski, Antimoon.com Many language learners assume their pronunciation is good enough because their teacher doesn't correct them too often or because other students can understand them. Fact:Those learners are often dead wrong ? for...