It is linguistic behavior on the part of the individual.
It will not just be a matter of noting what linguistic behaviour it provokes.
Members the lower middle class are caught between the linguistic behavior of the classes below them and the attitudes of the upper class.
These beliefs not only explain to the ordinary language-user things she might have observed for herself, they also regulate linguistic behaviour.
This is an example of folklinguistics regulating real linguistic behaviour.
The question which hung over this whole discussion, though, was how beliefs about linguistic behaviour relate to the observable facts.
Think about linguistic behavior at funerals, for example.
Having heard about this strange case of linguistic behavior, I visited the good doctor in his office and conducted an interview.
(1) My study of individuals' linguistic behaviour is based on the close analysis of interactions within conversation.
