Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties

by Carol Myers-Scotton

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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.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195115228

ISBN13:9780195115222

Release Date:August 1998

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:1.06 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Education & Reference Foreign Language Study & Reference Humanities Language Arts Linguistics Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods Postmodernism Words, Language & Grammar

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