The phrase "class marker" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about sociolinguistics or education to refer to linguistic features that indicate a speaker's social class or group.
Example: "In many dialects, the use of certain vocabulary can serve as a class marker, distinguishing between different socioeconomic groups."
Alternatives: "social indicator" or "sociolect feature."
And so she creates a look to be copied … Stockings will never go away, and still might indicate cool, but surely will not ever be quite the excruciating class marker they once were.
Partridge's only entry is on "bored" as a subject complement and what preposition it takes, since "bored of," as opposed to "with," is a class marker, which is all that ever really concerns Partridge.
Mr Blair's accent (another reliable class marker) used to wander around the country according to who was in the audience, with flecks of estuary English creeping in for some and the Oxford variety returning for others.
Their moral tone was high, their thrift anddiligence exemplary; they made and mined and banked and became rich.But in custom, and in that crucial class marker in England,language, to an educated English southerner, they were at bestprovincial, at worst uncouth.
Stress placement is largely predictable, depending for nominals on their declensional class marker (e.g., ánthropos 'man' versus polítis 'citizen' [-o versus -i class]), but for the verb on their tense (e.g., katháriz-a 'I cleaned' versus katharíz-o 'I clean' [past versus nonpast tense]).
Sociologists consider consumption to be a key class marker and believe that class positions are negotiated through consumption in complex and often paradoxical ways.
The article and photographs were replete with class markers.
All year, polls had shown that income, education level and other class markers did not predict Trump support.
In contemporary American fiction, class markers aren't in short supply, nor are writers shy about using them.
His stories are without the accessorising of class markers that you see in so many books of this type – where lack of money means drink, say, or domestic violence.
There's an attractive aliveness to her, something spirited and zany; she's snatching at her pleasures — actually in a kind of anarchic way, for all her watchfulness over the class markers.
