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A Comparison of the Factorial Structure of Written Coding Patterns for a Middle-Class and a Working-Class Group

Author(s) -

Millicent E. Poole

Publication year - 1973

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 - 10.1177/002383097301600201

Subject(s) - adverbial , elaboration , syntax , coding (social sciences) , psychology , linguistics , class (philosophy) , middle class , factorial , mathematics , computer science , statistics , artificial intelligence , humanities , mathematical analysis , philosophy , political science , law

The present study was designed to compare the factorial structure of written coding patterns for a middle-class and a working-class group. Nineteen indices of written code elaboration were correlated for two groups of 40 subjects. The resulting correlation matrices yielded six factors (middle-class) and seven factors (working-class). Four common factors emerged—Syntax, Adverbial Elaboration, Personal Reference and Uncommon Linguistic Forms. The resulting factorial patterns did not support the Bernstein socio-linguistic thesis of greater complexity of coding elaboration for middle-class subjects.

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