The effects of social status and social dialect on listener responses

Brenda Bochner · Arthur P. Bochner

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The findings of this experimental study indicate that the response to the dialect speech of another is not unidimensional and that dialect is more likely a determinant of speaker ethos for middle social status persons than for high or low social status persons.

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