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covert prestige: a standalone construct

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Sociolinguistics

positive value placed on nonstandard or working-class speech that speakers may favor despite openly praising the standard.

In sociolinguistics, covert prestige refers to positive value placed on nonstandard or working-class speech that speakers may favor despite openly praising the standard. This meaning comes from Trudgill (1972) in Language in Society.[1]

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References

Trudgill, P. (1972). Sex, covert prestige and linguistic change in the urban British English of Norwich. Language in Society, 1(2), 179-195. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500000488

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