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Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties Book

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.Read More

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  • 0195115236
  • 9780195115239
  • 22 October 1998
  • OUP USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 232
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