Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties
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Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties
Book Details
- Author
- Carol Myers-Scotton
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Criticism & Theory
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780195115222
- ISBN-10
- 0195115228
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ISBN: 0195115228
Author: Myers-Scotton, Carol
Condition: New
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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