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    The document discusses social class and how it influences language use. It defines social class as groups of people with similar status, rank, or lifestyle that share levels of power and wealth. Sociologists have defined social classes based on theories from Marx, Weber, and Labov, who categorized classes as lower working, upper working, lower-middle, and upper-middle. The document also discusses how social class affects language variations and the use of standard versus non-standard languages.

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    social

    class
    Saidul Islam

    Amirul Azad

    Amirul Azad
    index

    01 What is social class? 04 Language Variations

    Ways of defining social


    02 class
    05 The influence of Social
    Class on Language Use

    Contribution of William
    03 Labov 06 Summary
    Social Class?
     A group of people of similar status, rank, or
    common characteristics (i.e. lifestyle) and
    commonly sharing similar levels of power and
    wealth

     A principal type of social stratification found in


    all the societies
    Ways of defining Social Class

    • According to the theories of Sociologists

    • Political Perspective

    • Karl Marx and Max Weber

    KARL MARX mAX WEBER


    THE BOURGEOISIE
    The owner of the means of production: the
    factories, businesses, and equipment needed
    to produce wealth

    THE PROLETARIAT
    The working class people of the society KARL MARX
    PROPERTIED CLASS
    People of upper class who has lots of wealth
    and capability to help the others

    NON-PROPERTIED CLASS
    People of lower class who did not own any
    property
    PETITE BOURGEOISIE
    A social class composed of semi-autonomous mAX WEBER
    peasants and small-scale merchants

    THE PROLETARIAT
    The working class people of the society
    William labov
     American Linguist
     Founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics
     Created methodology sociolinguistics
     Investigated about the language of New York city
     Had his research in the late 1960’s

    William
    labov
    Social classes according to William labov

    i. The Lower Working Class


    ii. The Upper Working Class
    iii. The Lower-Middle Class
    iv. The Upper-Middle Class
    William
    labov
    EDUCATED
    ELITE prestigious
     Holding SOCIETY position in the society
     Decide mainly which language will possess the
    status of high variety or low variety and will play
    dominant/weaker role in the society
    LANGUAGE VARIATION
    (due to social class change)

    standard language non-standard language


    • Original variety of a language for • Mostly spoken by lower class soci-
    a particular speech community ety as dialect of the main language
    • Said
    • Considered as the standard • Different type available in different
    version of a language places of the country
    • Generally used by the educated • Not a rule governed language hav-
    elite society ing no standard form
    • Rule governed for of language
    The class of people can be classified from
    the perspective of―

    Age

    Power

    Economy

    Race

    Education

    Ethnicity
    INCOME
     Earnings from work or investments

    WEALTH

     All the assets an individual owns (such as,


    cash, savings accounts, etc.

    OCCUPATION

     A person’s regular work or profession, job


    or principal activities.

    EDUCATION

     The process of giving or receiving systematic


    instruction at a specific institution
     A strong predictor of occupation
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