Social Class

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What is social class

set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centred on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories.

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Prestige

changing language to appear to have more value, social status or power within a group or society

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Overt Prestige

to adapt your language use to fit in with the culturally recognised ‘ dominant group’

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Covert prestige

to adapt or change your language to fit in with an exclusive group. Arguably this is true of MLE