TY - JOUR AU1 - LOMAN, BENGT AB - BENGT LOMAN The present paper provides an account of part of an experiment aimed at elucidating the relationship between SPEAKER, SPEECH ACT and LISTENER from a sociolinguistic and sociopsychological perspective. It is therefore a contribution to the description of social variation in spoken language. The main part of the experiment comprises a study of the language used by separate individuals who can be grouped together according to certain social criteria; the purpose is principally to see to what degree variation in linguistic behavior correlates with the social structure of a community as seen in terms of social classes. But there is another side to the question: How do we, as users of language, react when we hear a segment of speech? What does it tell us about the speaker? Can a listener, just by listening to a segment of anonymous speech, be rather certain of the social status of the speaker? And on what factors in the speaker's linguistic behavior does the listener base his judgment of the speaker's social identity? Studies of social variation in language have hitherto dealt principally with the first aspect, studying particularly the frequency and distribution of linguistic phenomena among different social classes. TI - Linguistic Performance and Social Evaluation: A Sociolinguistic Attitude Test JF - Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences DO - 10.1515/ling.1976.14.183.85 DA - 1976-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/de-gruyter/linguistic-performance-and-social-evaluation-a-sociolinguistic-StR2dIcPmH SP - 85 EP - 102 VL - 14 IS - 183 DP - DeepDyve ER -