从女王口音变化看英国社会阶层的变迁

中国最大的论文知识平台’sAccentAbstract:TheQueen’saccentthatElizabethIIusedissimilartotheOxfordaccentwhichisso-calledtheUpper-classEnglishpronunciation.Inthe1950s,theBritishhadgreatclassconsciousness.Differentaccentrepresenteddifferentsocialstatus.Butinthepast50years,theQueen’saccenthasgraduallyclosingtothesouthernmiddle-classBritishpronunciation.ThisthesislistsandanalyzesthechangeofQueen’saccentandthereasonsinthepast50years..Meanwhileitconcludesthatthechangeisareflectionofthechangeofsocialstratum,particularlythechangeofmiddleclass.TheQueenchangedheraccenttoadaptthechangeofsocialstratum,sothatshecanwinherpeople’ssupport.Sheadmitstheequalityanddemocracybychangingheraccent.KeyWords:change;socialstratum;Queen’saccent从女王口音变化看英国社会阶层的变迁摘要：英国女王伊丽莎白二世原有的口音类似于牛津腔，是所谓英国上流社会的贵族英语发音。在20世纪50年代，英国人社会等级观念较重，不同口音代表了不同阶层的人。但近五十年来，女王口音日益接近于英国南部普通中层阶级大众。本文列举并分析了近五十年来女王口音的变化及其原因，并发现这种变化是英国社会阶级结构变化的一种折射，尤其是中产阶级阶层地位的变化。这也正是女王为适应社会阶层变化以及迎合大众人心所做出的改变。这个改变也是承认社会民主平等的一个表现。关键词：变化；社会阶层；女王口音中国最大的论文知识平台’sAccent..................................21.1TheStatusofQueen’sAccent...............................................................................21.1.1RelationBetweenAccentandSocialStratum...............................................21.1.2TheStatusofRPandOtherAccents.............................................................31.1.3TheStatusofQueen’sAccent.......................................................................51.2ChangesinQueen’sAccent...................................................................................51.2.1ChangesofEnglishAccentRecently............................................................51.2.2ChangesofQueen’sAccent..........................................................................61.3TheProcessoftheChange....................................................................................71.3.1ChangefromAbove......................................................................................71.3.2ChangefromBelow......................................................................................82.ChangesofBritishStratum..................................................................92.1ChangesofSocialStratum....................................................................................92.1.1ChangesofMiddleClassStratum.................................................................92.1.2ChangesofConceptofSocialStratum.......................................................102.1.3ChangesofEducationFormsandGlobalPopularization............................112.2ReasonofChangesinQueen’sAccent................................................................122.2.1ConsciousReason.......................................................................................122.2.2SubconsciousReason..................................................................................123.SignificanceofChangesinQueen’sAccent.......................................123.1MeaningstotheSociaty......................................................................................123.2MeaningstoHerself............................................................................................134.Conclusion............................................................................................13Acknowledgements………………...……………………………..….....15Bibliography………………...………………………………...……...…16中国最大的论文知识平台’vegotgoodbreeding,peoplewilltreatyouwithrespect.Membersof“lower”classesoftenhaveagreaterclassconsciousnessthandotheir“upper”classcounterparts.However,thisisnotnecessarilythecaseinsocietieswhereclasshierarchyisastrictanddeeptradition.MembersoftheEnglisharistocracy,forexample,werethoroughlyawareoftheprivilegesoftheirpositionandarchlydisdainfuloftheirinferiors.ClasssysteminEnglandisaprejudiceprimarilybaseduponaccent.WheneveraBritonmeetsanotherBritonhewillbasealibrary’sworthofprejudicesonthestrangerfromthestyleofthefirstsentenceuttered.Mostpeopleknowtherearehundredsofregionalaccentsinthiscountry.Theregionalaspectisofsecondaryimportance,whatyoumustdoistodividetheregionalaccentsintosubstrataofclass.TheQueen’sEnglish(QE)isactuallynotthe“properform”ofEnglish,inthatthereisnocorrectform.However,itisthedialectofBritishEnglishwiththemostprestigeinmanyEnglish-speakingcountries,especiallythosewithrecenttiestoEngland.Itisneverpossibletomakeasimplestatementaboutlanguagevariationandsocialclassbecauseotherinfluentialfactorsareinvolved,suchasthesexofthespeaker,andtheformalityofthesituation.Thereisalsoanimportantinteractionbetweensocialandregionalfactors,asillustratedbelowforBritishEn