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Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

By: Suzanne Romaine | Book details

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Sociolinguistic Patterns
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FIG. 3.1. Vowel patriotism: the Norwegian language struggle has culminated for the time being in a bitter quarrel over whether one serves one's country best by saying sne or snΆ ('snow')

IT has been known for some time that differences in language are tied to social class. In the 1950s it was suggested that certain lexical and phonological differences in English could be classified as U (upper class) or non-U (lower class), e.g. serviette versus tablenapkin, to take what was then one of the best-known of all

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