LINB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Socioeconomic Status, Hypercorrection, Speech Community
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Boys dropped the g more than girls. Low glass families dropped g more than the middle class families. He was the first one to notice these in terms of social factors. Capitalist (upper class people who are rich) & proletariat (working class) Sociolinguists used to follow sociologists (lifestyles & life chances); trudgill (determined social status bases on type of home, neighbourhoods, job and your income) But recently in sociolinguistics we only determine class based on jobs. We have teachers, artists an writers who make alt of money but they aren"t apart of the upper class. Some people may own all these designer stuff and have a lot of money but that doesn"t necessarily mean they have class. Higher the prestige the higher the social status. Socioeconomic status = power + property + prestige (ex. Hypercorrection over application of the correct, grammatical rule. Stigmatized (a variant used by the working class people, ex. Ain"t) it would be the opposite of prestigious.
