The effects of social status and social dialect on listener responses
- 1 June 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Central States Speech Journal
- Vol. 24 (2) , 75-82
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10510977309363150
Abstract
The findings of this experimental study indicate that the response to the dialect speech of another is not unidimensional and that dialect is more likely a determinant of speaker ethos for middle social status persons than for high or low social status persons.Keywords
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