Upper-class English in Natural and Audiovisual Dialogue

Abstract

I think there could be nothing more hopelessly non-U than to write a book about it.(Russel Lynes, introduction to Noblesse Oblige, edited by Nancy Mitford, 1959) close the discussion by focusing on the comparison between real and represented upper-class English through the analysis of a few public speeches by the Queen and other aristocratic figures and how these speeches were rendered in The Crown.The results from this study, which combines the disciplines of sociolinguistics and dialectology applied to the audiovisual text, will hopefully open a new path in the study of the language of the élite group, which can still be considered as an under-researched topic in academia.