Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties

by Carol Myers-Scotton

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This collection of essays considers how messages of intentionality are conveyed by choosing one style of English over another. While these choices are not necessarily conscious, implicit in the communicative competence of a speaker, performer, or writer is an awareness of the consequences of their choice of linguistic code. Messages of intentionality thus go beyond the referential content of the conversational turn, performance, or literary work...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195115236

ISBN13:9780195115239

Release Date:August 1998

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Education & Reference Foreign Language Study & Reference Humanities Language Arts Linguistics Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods Postmodernism Words, Language & Grammar

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