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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451425003321

Autore

Johnstone Barbara

Titolo

The linguistic individual [[electronic resource] ] : self-expression in language and linguistics / / Barbara Johnstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996

ISBN

0-19-535633-0

1-280-52851-6

1-4294-0676-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Collana

Oxford studies in sociolinguistics

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Linguistics

Individuality

Language and languages

Sociolinguistics

Self

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.