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Social Class, the Nominal Group and Reference

Author(s) -

P. R. Hawkins

Publication year - 1969

Publication title -

language and speech

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.713

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 1756-6053

pISSN - 0023-8309

DOI - 10.1177/002383096901200205

Subject(s) - noun , class (philosophy) , social class , middle class , psychology , working class , linguistics , sample (material) , developmental psychology , computer science , political science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , chemistry , chromatography , politics , law

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.

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