Publications

Publication details [#1331]

Bernstein, Basil. 1960. Language and social class. British Journal of Sociology 11 : 271–276.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

social class | sociolect

Annotation

Report of an investigation supporting the suggestion that the measurable interstatus differences in language facility result from different modes of speech found in the middle class and the lower working class.

Reprints

Bernstein, Basil. 1971. In Bernstein, Basil, ed. Class, codes and control, vol.1: Theoretical studies towards a sociology of language. Routledge and Kegan Paul. pp. 61–67.