To this end, this essay endeavours to explore some of the issues of language in the linguistic literature such as the intersection between language and society, education, politics and socio-economic class as discussed below. ... For instance, in comparison to the working class in Anglo-America and African Americans cultures, working class speakers from Appalachia more often than not reduce consonant clusters. ... Nonetheless, the pronunciation of the word ask as ax by the Southern relates to an ethnic community of African American. ...

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The association between rioting, civil dissent and protest on the one hand, and intersectional and gender politics on the other, is something which has been noted in the literature (White, 2007). ... Likewise in Ferguson, the fatal shooting of African American Michael Brown by a white police officer on the 9th of August last year was seen as a catalyst for the events which followed. ... The geography of intersectional politics is something which has been foregrounded in the literature (White, 2007), and it has been evidenced in both these cases, as well as in the problem of the 'banlieu...

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