Social Class, the Nominal Group and Reference
- 1 April 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Language and Speech
- Vol. 12 (2) , 125-135
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002383096901200205
Abstract
In a sample of 124 middle class children and 139 working class children aged five years, it has been shown that significantly more working class children use items of exophoric reference, particularly third-person pronouns, while significantly more middle class children use parts of speech associated with the noun. The conclusions support Bernstein's theory of 'restricted' and ' elaborated ' codes.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Social Class Language Differences in Group DiscussionsLanguage and Speech, 1964
- Social Class, Linguistic Codes and Grammatical ElementsLanguage and Speech, 1962