It couldn’t be that, I was raised among the proletariat. Not much prestige dialect signalling there. (There is some, of course, but nothing like the bourgeoisie.)
As far as I can tell, all English people are completely obsessed with class and signalling issues, except possibly the royal family, who I imagine feel fairly secure. I don’t know what it’s like in the rest of the world, though.
It couldn’t be that, I was raised among the proletariat. Not much prestige dialect signalling there. (There is some, of course, but nothing like the bourgeoisie.)
As far as I can tell, all English people are completely obsessed with class and signalling issues, except possibly the royal family, who I imagine feel fairly secure. I don’t know what it’s like in the rest of the world, though.
Have you read ‘Watching the English’ by Kate Fox, or Paul Fussell’s ‘Guide to the American Class System’, that yvain linked to here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/did/what_is_signaling_really/