Analysis of questionnaire 

When looking over my results from my questionnaire numerous questions helped me build an image of people’s attitudes towards each other and how they are regarded. For question one, the majority of people were situated in the - 15-20 category because most of the people I asked were within my friendship group. For question two the main response from the people who participated seemed to say that the English language is being influenced by other cultures because people are beginning to develop talking in slang. Question three had a 70% success rate in answering the correct answer, this shows that people over time have developed bad habits of incorrect grammar due to the end result not being 100%, using ‘was’, instead of ‘were’. Question four everyone answered with – no, for the fact that they wouldn’t change their accent depending on who they were talking too. This is not very surprising because people don’t want to change themselves for other peoples benefit. Question 5 was answered similarly by all participants, which was – no, the main reason why was: because their accent does not change who they are and what they say. Question 6 had a 100% agreement by all, which was – no, the people do not seem to want to adapt to please others. Their response for this question was – there is no need to change as everyone should be themselves. Question seven was answered 80% - yes and 20% - no, showing us that more people are more likely to listen to someone if they spoke in standard English, oppose to – Essex or Geordie. The majority of people said that they think it’s a good thing to speak in Standard English because it’s easier to understand and can come across to be more respectful. Question nine seemed to baffle people – ‘are you able to understand people if they’re from a different ethnicity despite their lexical and phonological differences’, despite including a key – ‘(despite their word choices and punctuation)’. Therefore the information I received back was not really accurate as was receiving either just short yes or no answers which wasn’t much help, with the exception of one answer which was – ‘mostly depending on the strength of their accent’. Therefore having to base my results on this one answer I wasn’t able to develop a clear picture of the public’s opinion, therefore I should have included older people’s perspectives to broaden the results. Finally, question 10 had a 60% success rate and 40% of people got the answer incorrect – ‘I didn’t do nothing’, more and more people in society are using double negatives which is grammatically incorrect in this example. Therefore this shows that society has evolved and people are picking up bad grammatical habits.