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Class Language
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Class Language

A Luke and Philip Graham
Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, pp.428-431
Elsevier Ltd.
2006
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/00374-6
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Bourdieu capital codes education equality gender globalization habitus identity language change language loss language retention Marx power reproduction social class social networks sociology of language
How social class factors into linguistic practices and use, language change, and loss has been a major theme in postwar sociolinguistics and ethnography of communication, language planning, and sociology of language. Key foci of linguistic and sociological research include the study of social class in everyday language use, media, and institutional texts. A further concern is to understand the relationship between social class stratification, intergenerational social reproduction, and language variation. Bourdieu's model of linguistic habitus and cultural capital offers a broad theoretical template for examining these relations, even as they are complicated by forces of economic and cultural globalization, new media, and identity formations. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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