The Situation: A Neglected Source of Social Class Differences in Language Use.
The paper aims to understand how a person's previous experience (of which his social class is simply a rough and composite index) interacts with factors in the momentary situation to affect his behavior. At any one moment, a child decides to speak or be silent, to adopt communicative intent a or com...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social Issues Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 35 - 61 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Spring1970
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