Style-shifting in public [[electronic resource] ] : new perspectives on stylistic variation / / edited by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.44
• Soggetto topico: Rhetoric - Political aspects; Discourse analysis - Political aspects; Mass media and language
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Hernández CampoyJuan Manuel Cutillas-EspinosaJuan Antonio
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Style and sociolinguistic variation in political discourse -- pt. 2. Style and sociolinguistic variation in media interaction.
• Sommario/riassunto: Language acts are acts of identity, and linguistic variation reflects the multifaceted construction of verbal alternatives for transmitting social meaning, where style-shifting represents our ability to take up different social positions due to its potential for linguistic performance, rhetorical stance-taking and identity projection.Traditional variationist conceptualizations of style-shifting as a primarily responsive phenomenon seem unable to account for all stylistic choices. In contrast, more recent formulations see stylistic variation as initiative, creative and strategic in personal and
• Titolo autorizzato: Style-shifting in public
• ISBN: 1-283-46930-8; 9786613469304; 90-272-7487-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457446203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in language variation ; ; v. 9.