Code mixing in Lanna Thai: the mixture of Northern Thai dialects ...

8. Discussion1) Female as a leader of linguistic change1.1) Females might treat language as the fashion, use thenew and more prestige forms and are sensitive to thestigmatised forms as the gender’s paradox (Labov, 2001: 292-3). Thus they are the leader of linguistic change.1.2) Female anchors become more mixed and moreconcerned about the audiences of radio broadcast than thatof males. They are more aware of being broadcasted andmake it becomes mutual intelligible. They mixed their NTdialects with BKK Thai dialect a lot. Thus, this might be inaccordance with the theories of linguistic accommodation(Trudgill, 1986) and/or audience-design model of styleshifting (Bell, 1997). 33