LINB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Standard Language, Socioeconomic Status, Hypercorrection
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Prestige comes from an individuals occupations - and this is what decides someone"s social status. Socioeconomic status: comes from 3 factors (prestige, power and property) e. a judge. Not everyone who has a high prestige has a high socioeconomic status ex. Why do we call it-borrowed prestige: middle class borrows prestige, linguistic features from the people above them (higher class) Ex, i ain"t do nothing double negation, judged as a lower class feature. Chambers categorize people by their social aspirations, Sociolinguistic markers: aware of it, can be controlled (ex. Sociolinguistic indicators - all speakers within all classes say the same. It"s lost easier to move downward and lose prestige. More competition with the movement of classes. If everyone moves to the higher class there won"t be any lower class, and no one will be doing those jobs. Moving up the social ladder with a degree. Horizontal mobility changing occupations within the same social class (ex.
