Societal Segmentation

1
Societal Segmentation Linguistic Variation
Class and Race

• Chapter 6
• Review My Fair Lady Article

2
Social Stratification

• Definition
• Is social stratification a human inequality?
• Caste
• Class
• Class and Network

3
Case Studies

1. New York City
2. Norwich, England
3. Paris and Rouen, France
4. Maaseik, Belgium
5. Southern English, U.S.A.
6. Creole, Haiti Afro-Caribbean Speakers in Great
   Britain
7. Ebonics, U.S.A.

4
Race

• African-American English in the United States
• The Structure of African-American Vernacular
  English
• The Ebonics Controversy