语言变体是指语言或言语变异、语言或言语异体。《儿子与情人》是英国作家劳伦斯的第一部长篇小说。小说叙述一个经典爱情故事。劳伦斯通过现实主义和心理分析的写作方法,描写了十九世纪末叶英国工业社会中下层人民的生活和特定环境下母子间和两性间的复杂、变态的心理。本文通过对小说中人物间所使用的对话特点进行分析,它突出了社会语言学的语言变体现象,从不同人物的语码转换来展现心里世界,从而了解莫瑞尔一家人的阶级斗争等,更深刻的理解小说的主旨。 Language variant refers to the language or speech variation, language or speech variant. Son and lover is the first novel by British writer Lawrence. The novel narrates a classic love story. Through the writing methods of realism and psychoanalysis, Lawrence described the life of the middle and lower classes of British industrial society and the complex and perverted psychology between mother and child and between the sexes in the specific environment in the late nineteenth century. This article analyzes the characteristics of the dialogue used between characters in the novel. It highlights the phenomenon of linguistic variation in sociolinguistics, reveals the inner world from the code conversion of different characters, and thus understands the class struggle of the family of Morel. , A deeper understanding of the essence of the novel.