LING 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sociolect, Post-Creole Continuum, Hypercorrection
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To determine class you can use a complex scorecard (trudgill) based on type of home, neighborhood, income, and occupational prestige. Or something simpler like occupational prestige alone, very high levels of agreement about which jobs are considered higher or lower prestige. Borrowed prestige- our setting and the role we"re playing affect how we speak, employees in fancy stores use higher prestige language forms than those in less fancy stores even though their actual occupations and income are the same (labov). Chambers- covers social aspirations and how we talk like who we want to be. Crossover effect- perfect correlation of classes and styles (higher class= higher use of prestige forms, more formal style= higher use of prestige forms). Exception in that the second-highest class uses even more prestige forms than the highest, in very formal styles. Social hypercorrection- they overdo the requirements of the situation, which has been found in many studies.
