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Codes and Consequences : Choosing Linguistic Varieties.

This volume examines the implications of the phenomenon known as ""codeswitching"", where in given situations, different people with access to the same linguistic repertoire (or one person in different situations) will sometimes make very different linguistic choices. Employing M...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Myers-Scotton, Carol
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contributors; I. OVERVIEW; 1 Introduction; 2 A Theoretical Introduction to the Markedness Model; II. STYLISTIC CHOICES IN LITERATURE; 3 Implicatures of Styleswitching in the Narrative Voice of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses; 4 Marked Grammatical Structures: Communicating Intentionality in The Great Gatsby and As I Lay Dying; 5 Markedness and References to Characters in Biblical Hebrew Narratives; 6 Literariness, Markedness, and Surprise in Poetry; 7 Villainous Boys: On Some Marked Exchanges in Romeo and Juliet; III. STYLISTIC CHOICES IN SPOKEN ENGLISH.
  • 8 Markedness and Styleswitching in Performances by African American Drag Queens9 Styleswitching in Southern English; 10 Marked Versus Unmarked Choices on the Auto Factory Floor; IV. STYLISTIC CHOICES AND SECOND-LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; 11 ""Not Quite Right"": Second-Language Acquisition and Markedness; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.