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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
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