Toward a Theory of Social Dialect Variation.

Kroch, Anthony S.

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Toward a Theory of Social Dialect Variation

Kroch, Anthony S.

Language in Society, 7, 1, 17-36, Apr 78

Offers this proposal: (1) the public prestige dialect of the elite in a stratified community differs from the dialect(s) of the non-elite strata in at least one phonologically systematic way; (2) the cause of stratified phonological differentiation is to be sought not in purely linguistic factors but in ideology. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: Language Variation, Linguistic Theory, Lower Class, Phonology, Social Class, Social Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Standard Spoken Usage, Upper Class

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