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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823136003321

Titolo

Codes and consequences : 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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

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

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

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.