Different Language Variants and Social Class
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https://doi.org/10.54097/1cab0c65Keywords:
Language, Social Class, Language VariantsAbstract
This paper explains the relationship between the language and social class. Different people from different social class speak in a different way, and language is the representation of people’s social status. The purpose of this paper is to find these differences and their causes, then try to make clear the relationship between linguistic variables and social class. At last, this paper advocates that we should avoid language prejudices on the language variants which lower-class people use.
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