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1) In 1872, Yukichi Fukuzawa observed that in Japan, dialects differed based on both region and social class, with samurai speaking differently than merchants. 2) He experimented with addressing strangers in either the dialect of a samurai or a merchant, and found that people responded differently based on how they were addressed, showing dialects were chosen based on social circumstances. 3) Sociolinguistics later formalized the study of how social factors like class influence linguistic variation and c

Author

Ronaldo Nogueira

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