Social marker
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A social marker is a way for a member of elites to indicate their dominant position through appearance, speech, dress, choice of food, and communication rituals.[1]
Language and speech
[edit]In language and speech, a social marker is a cue to the social position of the speaker provided through both linguistic (choice of language or languages, language style, accent, dialect, code-switching) and paralinguistic (voice pitch and tone) means. The cues might indicate age, sex and gender, social class, ethnicity.[2] The social markers associated with the speech, along with other forms of social capital, are among the hardest to acquire while moving up the social ladder.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Reuter 2002, p. 89.
- ^ Pitts & Gallois 2019.
- ^ Reuter 2002, p. 92.
Sources
[edit]- Pitts, Margaret Jane; Gallois, Cindy (2019-05-23), "Social Markers in Language and Speech", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.300, ISBN 978-0-19-023655-7
- Reuter, Timothy (2002-12-31). "Nobles and Others: The Social and Cultural Expression of Power Relations in the Middle Ages". Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe. Boydell and Brewer. doi:10.1515/9781846150111-011. ISBN 978-1-84615-011-1.
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