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Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties

Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties

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Literary CriticismLinguistics

ISBN10: 0195115228
ISBN13: 9780195115222
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 20 1998
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Carol Myers-Scotton has edited a collection of essays that covers the choice of one style of English over another in everything from Bible translations to surprise in poetry to supervisor-worker interactions on the automobile assembly line. An important theme developed to varying degrees in these papers is the notion that speakers and writers, as rational actors, exploit the unmarked-marked opposition regarding audience expectations so as to convey messages of intentionality charged with social or psychological import.

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