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Within her audition, Peake has clearly encountered some strongly prescriptivist and small-minded attitudes towards regional accents. We can see this when the director says, 'Martha’s been to university, she’s educated.' The proper noun RADA and adjective 'educated' imply a strong correlation for this individual between education and rationality. Dennis Freeborn would describe this as the 'incorrectness view': the belief that better educated people actually use language in a more inherently correct way. This is a view he refutes himself, claiming that prestige for SE is merely down to fashion rather than scientific superiority of SE. Peake's own descriptivist stance can be seen when she says, 'I go ‘I’ve been to Rada and I still talk like this.' The past participle adverb 'still' and present participle verb 'talking', imply that she is proud of her regional variation and has been able to keep it even when surrounded by those speaking SE for a long time. There is also an implication that she has been able to Code Switch during her time in RADA as she must have encountered situation where she had to 'lose' her regional accent in order to converge with those around her
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