It's official. Watching TOWIE can be educational - or certainly insightful - from a linguistic perspective. A recent article in The Sun discusses TOWIE in relation to dialectal difference and the casts' use of spoken language. The article is written by Paul Kerswill, a professor of sociolinguistics at Lancaster University; you can read it here:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3885529/TOWIEs-dialect-continues-a-lengthy-linguistic-tradition.html
AS English Language students will be studying 'Language and Region' after the half term break, as part of their exam unit, Presenting Self (section B).
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