Ideological signs carry opposing class accents and become sites of struggle

Evidence

I accept that to an RP speaker my broad slow vowels are evidence of stupidity. What bothers me is that nowadays, to a northern ear, I sound southern: that is to say, insufferably posh and affected. I don’t belong anywhere. And this gives me a problem: which bits of English history are my history? — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 48 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Working-class culture emerges from its material conditions combined with class struggle; Signs stay vital only through class struggle over their meaning.; Liberal democratic ideology internally generates the contradictions that let alternatives through (+22 more)

Related

• Signs stay vital only through class struggle over their meaning. (similarity 0.81)
• Regional accents signal perceived social class and cultural displacement to listeners. (similarity 0.80)
• The same sign carries differently oriented class accents simultaneously (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ideological change happens through class struggle, not through ideas alone #corroborates (0.70)
• Regional accents signal perceived social class and cultural displacement to listeners. #exemplifies (0.70) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 48
• Articulation is a non-necessary linkage connecting ideology to social forces under specific conditions #expands (0.60)
• Ideologies connect to subjects through contingent, breakable articulations rather than necessity #corroborates (0.60)
• Culture acquires class meaning only through present political struggle #expands (0.55)
• Cultural struggle shifts positions, never staying over the same meaning #corroborates (0.55)
• Ideologies change when subordinate elements of old ideology become primary #expands (0.50)
• Dominant ideology recruits the dominated by neutralizing rival ideologies’ antagonism #complicates (0.45)