The Elaborated Code in Working Class Language
- 1 October 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Language and Speech
- Vol. 8 (4) , 243-252
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002383096500800406
Abstract
Previous results have shown that working-class boys differed from middle-class boys in the language used in certain controlled situations. This investigation examines the possibility that the use of a relatively ‘restricted’ code by these working-class boys was a matter of preference rather than inability. Social class differences did not appear when the pressure on both groups was to use ‘elaborated’ code in a formal letter; differences did appear in informal letters and these were generally similar to those previously found.Keywords
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