Abstract
Ronald K. S. Macaulay. Talk that counts: Age, gender, and social class differences in discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp 3–225.In Talk that counts: Age, gender and social class differences in discourse, Ron Macaulay tackles two contentious but very different issues within Labovian Sociolinguistics. The first is the analysis of discourse level phenomena, specifically how to deal with ‘higher level’ variation within a quantitative paradigm. The second is Bernstein's (1971) restricted vs. elaborated code and the claim that middle class speakers have access to a more complex range of discourse structures when compared to lower class speakers. His findings on both are revealing.
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