Topic Development, Syntax, and Social Class.

A conclusion of 20 years' research into social class differences in speech is that working class speakers make greater use of pronouns as compared to nouns and use fewer subordinate constructions than do middle-class speakers. These syntactic findings have been linked, in the work of Basil Bernstein...

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Publicado en:Discourse Processes Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 267 - 287
Autor principal: Hemphill, Lowry
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Sep89
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