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The linguistic individual : self-expression in language and linguistics / Barbara Johnstone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnstone, Barbara, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in sociolinguistics
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linguistics.
- Individuality.
- Language and languages.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Self.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An examination of various discourse genres, showing how choices among linguistic resources are mediated by self-expressive choices. Linguistic consistency across various situations is discussed with the question of how, if language is fundamentally idiosyncratic, people can understand one another.
- Contents:
- Contents; CHAPTER 1 Discourse, Society, and the Individual; CHAPTER 2 Resources and Reasons for Individual Style; CHAPTER 3 Individual Voice and Articulate Speaking; CHAPTER 4 Individual Variation in Scripted Talk; CHAPTER 5 Consistency and Individual Style; CHAPTER 6 Idiosyncracy and Its Interpretation; CHAPTER 7 Toward a Linguistics of the Individual Speaker; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772198-2
- 0-19-535633-0
- 1-280-52851-6
- 1-4294-0676-3
- OCLC:
- 476013871
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