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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784851703321

Titolo

Codes and consequences [[electronic resource] ] : choosing linguistic varieties / / edited by Carol Myers-Scotton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998

ISBN

0-19-772138-9

1-280-52953-9

0-19-535407-9

1-4294-0445-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Myers-ScottonCarol

Disciplina

401/.41

Soggetti

English language - Discourse analysis

English language - Social aspects

English language - Variation

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; I. OVERVIEW; 1 Introduction; 2 A Theoretical Introduction to the Markedness Model; II. STYLISTIC CHOICES IN LITERATURE; 3 Implicatures of Styleswitching in the Narrative Voice of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses; 4 Marked Grammatical Structures: Communicating Intentionality in The Great Gatsby and As I Lay Dying; 5 Markedness and References to Characters in Biblical Hebrew Narratives; 6 Literariness, Markedness, and Surprise in Poetry; 7 Villainous Boys: On Some Marked Exchanges in Romeo and Juliet; III. STYLISTIC CHOICES IN SPOKEN ENGLISH

8 Markedness and Styleswitching in Performances by African American Drag Queens9 Styleswitching in Southern English; 10 Marked Versus Unmarked Choices on the Auto Factory Floor; IV. STYLISTIC CHOICES AND SECOND-LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; 11 ""Not Quite Right"": Second-Language Acquisition and Markedness; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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.