study on social class and language

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1、StudyonSocialClassandLanguage　　摘要：Languageisthemostimportanttoolforhumancommunication.Withthedevelopmentinsociety，historyandculture，variationsinlanguagecomeintobeingwhilethechoiceoflinguisticitemsbyspeakerstocommunicatethesamemessagemayvary，resultingfrom

2、theirdifferentsocialsituationsorclass.Thenthestudyontheinterrelationbetweensocialclassandlanguageisneeded.BystudyingthecasesofLabovandBernsteinaswellascharacters’linesinsomemodernseries，thispapertriestoanalyzetheinternalrelationsbetweenlanguageandsocialc

3、lass.　　?P键词：introduction；language；class　　1Introduction　　Thechangesinlanguagearecloselyrelatedtosocialdevelopment，especiallysocialclasswhichcanidentifythelanguageusers.Tofurtherexplainthispoint，weneedtoexploresomerelevantpointsonlanguageitselfanditschange

4、s.　　2TheDefinitionofLanguage　　Languagecanbedefinedindifferentaspects.AccordingtotheTheCourseBookofLinguisticsbyHuZhuanglin，languageisameansofverbalcommunication.Itisinstrumentalinthatcommunicatingbyspeakingorwritingisapurposefulact.Intermsofsociolinguist

5、ics，Hupointsoutthatlanguageisasocialsemioticandcommunicationcanonlytakeplaceeffectivelyifalltheusersshareabroadunderstandingofhumaninteractionincludingsuchassociatedfactorsasnonverbalcues，motivation，andsocio-culturalroles.（HuZhuanglin：2001）　　2.1LanguageV

6、ariation　　Inthereallife，languageisalwaysappliedinvariouswaysandtakesonavarietyofforms.Thenlanguagevariationcomesintobeingasthechangesinsomesocialfactors，includingsocialclass，genderandage，etc，andchangesinotherlinguisticfactorssuchascontext.Somepossiblelev

7、elsthatmaypresentlanguagevariationarephonology，vocabulary，grammarandregister.　　2.2DeterminantsofLanguageVariants　　Asanimportantpartinsociolinguistics，languagevariationreferstothedifferenceswhichoccurinapplyinglanguage.Usually，onelanguagevariablehasatleas

8、ttwovariants.Forexample，fortheword“come”，therearetwovariantsincluding/kΛm/and/kum/.　　Languagevariantscanbedeterminedbyvariousfactors.First，itisgenderthatmaymakeadifferenceinlanguage.Forexample，womentendtotalktenderlyanduse