LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CLASS: IS VERBAL DEPRIVATION A MYTH?
- 1 October 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Vol. 24 (4) , 533-542
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1983.tb00130.x
Abstract
A study was made of complex usages of languages in the spontaneous conversation of 4-yr-old girls (30), their mothers and their teachers, at home and at school. There were significant social class differences in frequency but almost all the usages appeared in the talk of almost all the mothers and children at least once. The working class girls'' language style changed more between home and school than did that of the middle class girls. The teachers'' talk contained a higher proportion of these usages than the mothers'', but the overall input to the children was less at school. The findings are discussed in relation to Labov''s argument that verbal deprivation is a myth.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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