Language and Social Class Flashcards
what are the names of the new class system
Elite
Established middle class
Technical middle
New affluent workers
Traditional working
Emergent service workers
Precariat
how is class calculated
class is calculated by economic, social. and cultural capital status
how did the class system used to be defined
upper, middle and lower
Who completed a study in 1985 about social class
malcolm petyt
What was Petyts study
He discovered in Bradford that the UMC only H dropped 12% of the time whilst the LWC H dropped 93% of the time
what does Petyts study show
His study shows that your class could affect the way we use language, the higher class you are the better spoken
Who conducted a study in Belfast
Milroy
What happened in Milroys Belfast study
He looked at the men who traveled for work and the women who stayed local, the men’s accents became more broad as they were communicating with people who didn’t have the same accent as them
what did Basil Bernstein say
he talked about restricted and elaborated code
what is the restricted code
lower/working class use this as similar viewpoint
lacks sophistication
similar interests and experiences
what is elaborated code
language is individual
middle class
complex grammar
conversations are harder to predict
wider vocabulary
