Publications

Publication details [#9552]

Turner, Geoffrey J. and Richard E. Pickvance. 1971. Social class differences in the expression of uncertainty in five-year-old children. Language and Speech 14 (4) : 303–325.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

social class | uncertainty, L1-acquisition of

Journal WWW

www.catchword.com/titles/00238309.htm

Annotation

T. and P. test the hypothesis that the orientation towards the use of expressions of uncertainty is more strongly related to social class than to verbal ability.

Reprints

Bernstein, Basil. 1973. In Bernstein, Basil, ed. Class, codes and control, vol.2: Applied studies towards a sociology of language. Routledge and Kegan Paul. pp. 93–119.