Publications

Publication details [#5184]

Jewson, Jan, Jacqueline Sachs and Ronald P. Rohner. 1981. The effect of a narrative context on the verbal style of middle-class and lower-class children. Language in Society 10 (2) : 201–215.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative style | narrative | social class

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Social class differences in verbal style are said to be not only a function of type of stimulus item, but also a function of strategies applied in the communicative situation.