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The Linguistic Individual: Self-Expression in Language and Linguistics (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) - Softcover

Johnstone, Barbara

 
9780195101850: The Linguistic Individual: Self-Expression in Language and Linguistics (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0195101855 ISBN 13: 9780195101850
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

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 that no two individuals speak alike, few study individual variation and voice. Barbara Johnstone makes a case for the individual's importance and idiosyncrasies in language and linguistics. Using theoretical arguments and discourse analysis, along with linguistic examples from a variety of speakers and settings, Johnstone illustrates how speakers draw on linguistic models associated with class, ethnicity, gender, and region, among others, to construct an individual voice. In doing so Johnstone shows that certain important questions in sociolinguistics and pragmatics can only be answered with reference to individual speakers. Johnstone's study is important both for the understanding of speech as expressive of self, and for the study of variation and mechanisms of linguistic choice and change.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Barbara Johnstone is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Texas A&M University.

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Barbara Johnstone makes a case for the individual's importance and idiosyncrasies in language and linguistics. Using theoretical arguments and discourse analysis, along with linguistic examples from a variety of speakers and settings, Johnstone illustrates how speakers draw on linguistic models associated with class, ethnicity, gender, and region, among others to construct an individual voice.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0195101855
ISBN 13 
9780195101850
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
234
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