“The idea that there is a single ‘normal’ #language, a common currency shared equally by all members of society, is an illusion. Any actual language consists of a highly complex range of discourses, differentiated according to #class, #region, #gender, #status and so on, which can by no means be neatly unified into a single homogeneous #linguistic #community.”

— Terry #Eagleton, “Introduction: What is Literature?,” Literary Theory: An Introduction