Socio Economic Class
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- Created on: 18-12-13 18:16
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- CLASS
- Variables
- Independent
- Factor condition variation
- Dependent
- Linguistic phenomenon we're interested in
- Independent
- Socio-Economic Class
- Major factor influencing variation
- Most linguistically marked aspect of our social being
- In industrialised nations
- Chambers (2003)
- Typical finding = 'standard' form use correlates with speaker's clas
- Higher the socio-economic class, higher the use of 'standard' forms
- Trudgill (1974)
- Higher the socio-economic class, higher the use of 'standard' forms
- Class correlated variation tells us about norms in a speech community
- Class defined in structural economic terms - one's relation to means of production
- Marxist idea
- Education
- Income
- Occupation
- Housing type
- Problems
- Only works well with people who conform to stereotypes
- Subjective weighting scales
- Women and children often classified via father/husband
- Varies place to place
- Example
- New York (r)
- Post war prestige = rhotic
- William Labov
- "fourth floor" x2
- Aim = to see effect of working in different shops on class
- Except shop workers mirrored client's social class status and language use
- 2nd renditions more careful and more of standard rhotic (r)
- New York (r)
- Variables
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