Linguistic Determinants of Racial Profiling - Language within communities and linguistic variety have been of concern to many sociolinguists like Labov, Trudgill, Gumperz, Kurath and Baugh. In their studies various forms of English have been studied. Among the variety, r- dropping, final cluster simplification, reflexive pronouns, s-dropping, absence of copula, invariant be, aspect (done) and multiple negetaion can be mentioned. In Labov’s study they are presented to be social markers which lead to stereotyping. Moreover, linguistic differences are said to be used for racial profiling.
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