What science migth help to solve this problem?

It is commonly assumed that the educational level of the speaker is a variable that is directly related to his/her lexical repertorie. Is this totally true? Why do people with similar education level have quite different lexical repertorie?

The science wich studies the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context on the way language is used, how lects differ between groups separated by certain social variables, e.g., ethnicity, religion, status, gender, level of education, etc., and how creation and adherence to these rules is used to categorize individuals in social class or socio-economic classes. As the usage of a language varies from place to place (dialect), language usage varies among social classes is named SOCIOLINGUISTICS.

Sociolinguistics is the science that can help to solve this problem if we approach the problem from a social point of view because lexical repertoire can change not only because of the educational level, it can change because of the culture, the customs among social groups.

Post by Andrea Di Cuonzo