The Pronunciation of [ing] as a Social Marker in Miller's Death of A Salesman The Pronunciation of [ing] as a Social Marker in Miller's Death of

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This study is intended to examine the language that reveals person 's social class, his/ her identity and gender through some of linguistic cues. These linguistic cues are called social markers which have social interaction and plays a great role to gather the information about social class and sex of the sender. This study works with written data from the play in middle of 20th century ''Death of A salesman'' by Arthur Miller. This play contains some of phonological differences that are utilized by New York speech community in 1940s. The conversation is written in slang and colloquial used in and around New York in the 1940s, with most people using sound [ɪn] instead of [ŋ] for suffixes [ing] and nouns ending with [ing] which can mark both the actor's gender and his / her social stratification in a particular text.