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Codes and consequences : choosing linguistic varieties / edited by Carol Myers-Scotton.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Discourse analysis.
- English language.
- English language--Social aspects.
- English language--Variation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The author explores the implications of the phenomenon known as ""codeswitching"", where in given situations, different people with access to the same linguistic repertoire (or one person in various situations) will make different linguistic choices.
- Contents:
- A theoretical introduction to the markedness model / Carol Myers-Scotton
- Implicatures of styleswitching in the narrative voice of Cormac McCarthy's All the pretty horses / Nancy Kreml
- Marked grammatical structures / Carol Myers-Scotton
- Markedness and references to characters in Biblical Hebrew narratives / Timothy Wilt
- Literariness, markedness, and surprise in poetry / Amittai F. Aviram
- Villainous boys / Trevor Howard-Hill
- Markedness and styleswitching in performances by African American drag queens / Rusty Barrett
- Styleswitching in southern English / Margaret Mishoe
- Marked versus unmarked choices on the auto factory floor / Janice Bernsten
- Not quite right / Mary Sue Sroda.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772138-9
- 1-280-52953-9
- 0-19-535407-9
- 1-4294-0445-0
- OCLC:
- 191948500
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