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插图：On most occasions, people imitate the speech of those who are in higher social positions. At the same time, many upper classes also borrow slang vocabulary from lower classes, especially the youth from the higher social groups who often imitate the pronunciation or informal discourse of the lower strata. For example, in Australia the lower class people are fond of using high-rise terminal in declarative sentences as they treat a question, which is thought as vulgar and full of vernacular features by the older generation. However, many youth from the higher strata would strive to be the first in imitating it.Different discourse styles of male and female form another important factor generating language variation. We will discuss the relationship between language and gender in chapter 4. Holmes ( 1998 ) points out that in general, women tend to introduce the prestige forms, whereas men tend to lead changes in the opposite direction, introducing new vernacular forms. Women use more standard but less vernacular forms than men. Holmes once made an investigation in a Spanish countryside and found that many women there tired of farming, went to city and began imitating standard language after they found jobs in the city ( even as baby-sitters, they could contact middle class employers). In contrast, many city upper-working class men often adopted informal forms of middle or lower-working class men, including vulgar of swear words or taboo words.

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谢徐萍，教授，硕士生导师，1983年毕业于南京师范大学外国语学院，现任南通大学外国语学院英语应用语言学研究所所长、研究生教研室主任，2003年赴澳大利亚昆士兰大学教育研究生院做高级访问学者。研究方向为语言学、教育心理学，主持江苏省教育厅课题及其他项目10余项，出版专著《英语读写文化（Literacy）研究》，获江苏省第二届教育科学优秀成果三等奖，迄今在省级以上学术期刊发表学术论文50多篇，其中在国外MELTA、《外语界》、《学术论坛》等CSSCI核心期刊发表论文约20篇，论文多次被中国人民大学书报资料中心全文转载，并获得江苏省各类优秀教育教学论文和科学研究成果奖励多项。

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