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The linguistic individual : self-expression in language and linguistics /
Linguists usually discuss language or dialects in terms of groups of speakers. Believing that patterns can be seen more clearly in the group than the individual, researchers often present group scores with no indication of the variation within the group. Even though linguists acknowledge thatno two...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- CHAPTER 1 Discourse, Society, and the Individual; Aaahh ... ; The Physical Voice; Linguistics and the Individual; Discourse Analysis; CHAPTER 2 Resources and Reasons for Individual Style; Two Stories; Creating a Context; Narrating; Moving In and Out of the Narrative; Marking Key Points; Reasons for Variation; Narrative and Individuation; CHAPTER 3 Individual Voice and Articulate Speaking; Articulateness and Self-Expression; Two Articulate Voices; Readiness; Clarity; Effectiveness; Two Self-Portraits; Loci for the Expression of Self in Academic English.
- Social Identity, Rhetorical Adaptation, and Personal StyleCHAPTER 4 Individual Variation in Scripted Talk; The Texas Poll; Individual Variation Among the Respondents; Justifications of Answers; Answers to an Open-Ended Question; Answers to a Multiple-Choice Question; What Were the Respondents Doing?; Individual Variation Among the Interviewers; Unsolicited Comments on Answers; Introductions; What Were the Interviewers Doing?; Politeness in Scripted Talk; Discourse Task Management; Cultural Individualism and Linguistic Individuation; CHAPTER 5 Consistency and Individual Style.
- The Barbara Jordan StyleThe Texts: Two Case Studies; Linguistic Correlates of Personal Authority; Barbara Jordan: Speaking Consistently from Moral Authority; Sunny Nash: Inconsistency and Pragmatic Flexibility; Strategies for Personal Style; CHAPTER 6 Idiosyncracy and Its Interpretation; Discourse Markers and Conventional Interpretations; Strategies for Discourse Marking; So: Conventional Marking and Interpretation; One time in particular: Semiconventional Marking, Semantic Inference; And uh, uh: Nonconventional, Uninferable Marking; Repetition and the Interpretation of Idiosyncracy.
- Grammar, Convention, and RepetitionCHAPTER 7 Toward a Linguistics of the Individual Speaker; Language as Art; Major Themes Reiterated; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.