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Toplu, Sebnem – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Council estates have been contestable social spaces of contemporary urban life in metropolitan cities like London and the marginalizing spatial experience they provide for the "working class" has been a problematic topic for many disciplines like architecture, sociology, psychology and literature. Considering the significance of space…
Descriptors: Metropolitan Areas, Working Class, Blacks, Females
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Aliakbari, Mohammad; Allahmoradi, Nazal – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Basil Bernstein (1971) introduced the notion of the Restricted and the Elaborated code, claiming that working-class speakers have access only to the former but middle-class members to both. In an attempt to test this theory in the Iranian context and to investigate the effect of social class on the quality of students language use, we examined the…
Descriptors: Social Class, Language Usage, Pragmatics, Middle Class