Retaining a regional accent resists class subordination rather than reactionary localism

Evidence

The appeal to the local in politics and culture is usually smug and reactionary; a petit-bourgeois ruse to acquire more cultural and actual capital by overpricing the artisnal and the organic (Williamson is wise to this scam too, blasting at “expensive coffee shops full of local art/Fuck off”). But the politics of locality operate differently when it comes to accent. The English bourgeoisie speak in more or less the same accent wherever they come from. The insistence on retaining a regional accent is therefore a challenge to the machineries of class subordination — a refusal to accept being marked as inferior. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1349

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: ‘the politics of accent’ — how accent differs from other locality-markers because class, not geography, is what an accent encodes.
• XREF: connects to: Regional accents are erased through class-aspirational self-suppression — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1348; Regional accents signal perceived social class and cultural displacement to listeners. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 48; Language changes through class culture acquisition and hegemonic national languages (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Regional accents are erased through class-aspirational self-suppression #expands (0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1348
• Regional accents signal perceived social class and cultural displacement to listeners. #qualifies (0.75) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 48
• Language changes through class culture acquisition and hegemonic national languages #expands (0.75)